Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are many things to be considered before a reform is instituted, but let us never forget to ask ourselves whether we shall derive more benefits from the new system than we did from the old. This is the acid test of all reform, however great our enthusiasm for it may be. E. A. WHITNEY...
...Harvard. The general examination is a much more adequate gauge of a man's knowledge of his subject than a series of tests at the end of each course. The latter are specific and detailed; a student may cram his head full of facts and pass them, but promptly forget all he has learned. College does not aim to inculcate a mass of detail which may be applied per se in after life--this is left for the technical school. The object of college is to teach a man to think; to give him a general well-rounded intellectual development...
...their names in connection with certain peace propaganda was unauthorized. A document had been circulated under the heading of a "Request of the Dutch League of Nations Committee to the Rulers of States, Members of governments and of Parliaments, and Delegates to the Peace Conference" asking them "to forget and forgive" matters connected with the war. The University names were attached to this document without authorization, and President Lowell and the others entered a protest of "while fervently desiring a lasting peace," they were not in accord with the sentiments it expressed...
Recent events in Paris have brought even more clearly to our attention an essential fact that the probable formation of a League of Nations tempts us constantly to forget: namely, that though war may be restricted, reduced in intensity, limited in size and scope, it can never be forever eradicated from this planet as long as man remains warm-blooded, and ideals and principles of right endure for him to defend...
...strongly advise all those college men who have recently been discharged from the army or navy to continue regular payments on their War Risk Insurance Policies. In the hurry of college life, it is very easy to forget these payments which will mean so much to them later on. If they neglect to keep up the payments now, they will never again be able to take up government insurance at these low rates, because the Government policies are to be issued only to those who served the nation in the army or navy...