Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...then, did it happen that this last outbreak occurred? Briefly, it was the last uprising of heathenism, a manifestation of savage impatience. The old chiefs, discontented with the present, looked back on the past and remembered only the times when they shot the buffalo, forgetting the intermediate periods of hunger; they forget the days in their youth when they were ill-clad, and remember only the festal days when their bodies were gaudily decorated...
...contingent flourishes. There are but two Harvard men in the place and we have endured much from our "friends the enemy" for five weary years. They do not know as we do that "the record" shows Harvard is still six races ahead of Yale. And lest Harvard men should forget this fact, allow me to give the figures...
...have received a communication from a member of the class of Seventy-four which expresses rather blindly the pride which the graduates take in an athletic victory. This man exults over our rowing record of years ago and bids us not forget that record. But what is the use of raking up the records of those old races, or even of trying to prove that we lead in total number of races won. The main question is how to win a race now, and if our loyal correspondent will send us his solution of the problem, we shall be glad...
...death-bearing company. Compassion was shown by Christ to the widow and he raised her son from death. Compassion is what the rich and happy should show to the wretched. The temptation is always strong to pass by any sight of misery and do one's best to forget it, but one has only to read this chapter of Luke to see how a member of the life-bearing train should act, and that if one wishes to copy Christ he should give his energy toward relieving, if only in a small degree, some suffering...
...only, it must be observed, of a few men. It is for the better control of this few that the college regulations have been lately made more strict. Especially does this apply to freshmen, who, having just come from the strict rules and punishments of school, are apt to forget themselves in the greater liberties accorded here to students supposed to have passed the school-boy age. There are quietly dismissed from college every year many men, whose absence is never known without the college bounds and often seldom within them...