Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...since their discharge from the service, comes a ray of light in the form of an official letter on the subject, which is printed elsewhere in this issue. In this letter Mr. Henry Lindsey, Director of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance at Washington, urges college men not to forget the advantages of the renewal and ultimate conversion of their policies, during the rush of college life...
...great war has taught us a lesson which we cannot afford to forget, and the only way we can profit by what we have learned is to have universal military training. Military service has awakened in our young men a great feeling of patriotism and service. It has given them confidence in themselves, and made them straight-forward, virile, and honest. I feel sure that the decrease in crime resulting from universal military service would more than cover the cost of training. If all our young men could have a year in the army, I believe that...
...strangers from an obscure school, in contrast with those who enter from the big preparatory schools, and make up their minds to be lonely. Because somebody doesn't pull them out of their solitary state, they conceive the University as composed of but two classes, snobs and grinds. They forget that the men who come out on top started, in many cases, on the same level as themselves. They become cynical and profess to believe that the ordinary undergraduate is not worth knowing, that all he can talk about is athletics and parties. But in the hearts of every such...
...only explanation of the growing misuse of the room is that people do not know or are beginning to forget that the Farnsworth Room is a memorial, as the bookplate indicates, and should be sacred from desecration. It is inconceivable that any college man should wish to rob something which has been given as a monument for the whole University to enjoy...
...democracy should be an individualistic democracy. Individuals must therefore develop themselves. Supervised study does not produce students and to much government does not produce free citizens. Those who look back with regret that they were not permitted to take an active part in the great war, should not forget a lesson which this war has taught,--that it was the men who had best prepared themselves for service in times of peace who were found to be the most useful to their country in times...