Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...speech of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Oliver Wendell Holmes '61, addressed to the Alumni on Commencement Day. It is a superb and stately offering of the fruitions and anticipations of a famous group of Harvard graduates. Those of us who heard Justice Holmes can never forget this address: the rest should read...
...forget your loose change...
...reason for the usual undergraduate view of this matter is not far to sock. Men want "activities" and "success." They forget that college is a place of training, where athletics are good in so far--and no farther--as they make for health of mind and body. Therefore success in a sport means no more than bodily health and a mind trained to do something well. When a man talks much about activities, it implies either a great deal of energy, or a desire to see his name in print. The reasons for estimating the value of a sport...
...inspiring the players. Non-contestants can demonstrate their enthusiasm by filling the stands at the games, and should refrain from too free criticism. The season has just begun and the new men cannot be expected to play like veterans. We mention this obvious fact, because many seem to forget that careless criticism reaches and discourages those towards whom it is directed, however unadvisedly...
...Clare forbids his daughter, Millicent, to marry the lover of her childhood, Raymond Mounchensey because the latter has had a reversal of fortune and picks out Frank Jerningham as a better match. Jerningham is, however, a true friend of Raymond and, when Millicent is sent to a convent to forget her old love, aids Mounchensey in his attempts to steal the girl away. The merry Devil confounds the pursuing father in the forest and thus helps the young couple to escape. Forgiveness and marriage bring the episode to a close. Though the devil hardly comes into contact with the characters...