Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...same. The 'varsity has need of all the time there is left before the Yale game to perfect its new plays, and the college must be patient. What we want to warn men here against is the possibility of falling into such a frame of mind that they may forget that the football team represents all Harvard and is not a sort of secret society. None of us care to have Harvard outdone in cheering at Springfield, but unless the men become slightly acquainted with our cheer there is a good chance that any attempts made to introduce...
...ELEVEN. - Backs be dressed at 3.30, all others at 3.45. Don't forget your gymnasium appointments...
Even as a teacher he is often too much of a pedagogue, and is apt to forget that poetry instructs not by precept and inculcation, but by hints and indirections and suggestions, by inducing a mood rather than by enforcing a principle or a moral. He sometimes impresses our fancy with the image of a schoolmaster whose class-room commands an unrivalled prospect of cloud and mountain, of all the pomp and prodigality of heaven and earth. From time to time he calls his pupils to the window, and makes them see what, without the finer intuition of his eyes...
...Leighton Parks, D. D., of Boston, preached last night at Appleton Chapel from the text, "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning." This speech, he said, is a declaration of patriotism. Patriotism is well defined as the sacrifice of self for the good of the country. The most remarkable acts of patriotism come then naturally in the time of war which is of its very nature a time of sacrifice. But there is plenty of room for the spirit of patriotism in peace. If a man is willing to sacrifice himself for his country...
...mean is; I spoke of it in my lectures on translating Homer, and there I took an example of it from Dante, who perhaps manifests it more eminently than any other poet. But from Milton, too, one may take examples of it abundantly; compare this from Milton:- nor sometimes forget...