Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...country where commercial development has not yet left much room for deliberate, peaceful thought, nor the pursuance of artistic ideals. The market value of toil and ambition, of genius, of capacity for understanding, is what we are all most familiar with; so much so that it is easy to forget what the love of a task for itself really means. It is this amateur spirit that is cherished and guarded in our universities and schools. And it is this spirit that we, and especially those of us who have artistic ideals, should cherish and guard in our later life...
...student at Harvard is likely, from mere familiarity, to forget that he is now enjoying intellectual and moral opportunities for breadth of development which far overshadow any that he will have in the future. The industry, humility, and aspiration which should be his in such surroundings is too often not to be found. The CRIMSON prints the following from a speech by Congressman Clement Brumbaugh '94, delivered recently before the Harvard Club of Washington. Although the style savors of Congressional oratory, there is a sincerity of feeling and truth underlying...
...heard that college courses deal too much with the past and too little with the present, and some reformers-- as the genial "Uncle Dudley" did a year ago,-- nonchalantly propose the abolition of many or all such courses. They class all thought of the past as useless learning; and forget that a large amount of intellectual capital which it would be prodigal to waste has been saved up in periods not radically unlike...
Seniors should not forget their class "lives" and photographs for the Senior Album. Membership in the Harvard Regiment should be included in the "lives...
...charged with eating out of the hands of "big business," and are "arraigned" for supposed intellectual subservience. The vitriolic young men, seeking publicity, who make these charges, conveniently forgot that they are often allowed to make their denunciations in college buildings, and then are invited to speak again. They forget also that American "big business" men were as strongly opposed to the retention of certain pro-German professors in the University as they possibly could be to the employment of radical lecturers. Yet the professors were retained...