Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have reached a period in the world's history when it must be recognized that if we are to maintain peace we must be prepared to defend ourselves. Let us not forget that as the nation is, so are its governments, its public service, its army and its navy...
...complications may bring us into war. All pacifists do not hold uncompromisingly to their theories whatever befalls; witness Norman Angell, who now foresees that America may be fighting half the world in half a century. Those who hold that Europe will be too exhausted to fight after this war forget that Europe fought continuously for more than twenty years in the time of Napoleon...
...Hagler, Jr., '16 defends the apparent change of front of certain present advocates of preparedness under the title, "The Pacifist Armed." He points out that conditions have changed, but he seems to forget that wise men not only change their minds, but that they may,--and in the normal course of events do,--graduate. Mr. Larrabee in an article on college journalism finds that undergraduate publications do not lay inordinate stress upon athletics, and that the student's desire for such reading matter in his less concentrated hours does not show a lack of proportion in his interests; and thrusts...
...easy to exaggerate, as these critics doubtless do, swayed as they are by indignation over a condition which greatly needs improvement. One must not forget, for example, the special interest clubs of the University, the well- attended extra lectures and the various publications. Certainly no separate indictment of Harvard or even of Memorial diners is in order. Much less can it be charged that the American college, because of its shortcomings, fails in use fulness; that its graduates are not above the average in intellectual interests...
...Society that laid out that invaluable guide to visitors and Freshmen, the map of the Yard in front of University Hall; it was the Society that compiled the lists of former occupants of rooms in Hollis, Holworthy and Stoughton Halls, so that the present generation might not forget the illustrious generations that had gone before...