Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tradition, the Freshman Dormitories, and when the subway-to-Park is just beginning to awake, the sparse but never sad remnants of 1917 will gather from Hollis, from Holworthy, and the furthest confines of West Newton for that annual festival wherein Seniors have attempted since immemorial years to forget, if such a thing were possible, that they are wise...
...especially precious reminder of his college years. By the immediate service which our young men are called on to perform, without dallying and without evasion, many members of the class will meet the briefer and the more glorious end of life. It is well that their classmates shall not forget them...
...young men who some day trust they will do something this careless world will not forget, Harvard men will be stirred to see this man who has saved a nation. There will be few enough in life to attain to greatness. Joffre has attained it in fame while republics yet live on the earth...
...achieved before the deadening influence of militarism fell over it. This is the spirit with which America cannot but sympathize, and it is to free the true Germany as well as to free the rest of the world that the United States have entered the war. Let us not forget this purpose, even in the time of greatest bitterness. The hideous thraldom of militarism and junkerism, of Hapsburg and Hohenzollern, can no longer be endured. The age of Caesars and Napoleons has gone. German dreams of world conquest are an anachronism, and to safeguard progress we must defeat the German...
...present system of learning lecture notes by heart, taking pages and pages of notes on outside reading to commit to memory, is futile, if that memorizing process is so mechanical that we forget all the facts after a quiz. Yet this is the system which is prevalent here at Harvard, and at other colleges throughout the country. With such methods of study there is little wonder that educators find their students submissively docile and without originality...