Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...seen Boche--wounded as well as whole prisoners, just as they are brought up from the trenches. One I can't forget was a fragile kid, clammy white, and with eyes gaping in terror. He was so young, so frightened, and so hungrily sick--looking. How could one transfigure him into the ferocious Teuton of most accounts...
...seriously endangered their prospects of success in business. Time which would otherwise have been spent in practising some trade or profession and in keeping ahead of some rival has been used for a nobler cause. The veteran is not only likely to be losing his position, but also to forget those fine bits of knowledge on which he relied for advancement. In the second place, foreign armies include many men taken from the middle of their college career. Boys who have not even completed a preparatory school course are often old enough to fight. Although some may take up their...
...this time when Boston is economically and socially seeking to forget the whine of peace-loving individuals, the least we at College can do is to set aside pacific pettiness (as exemplified in recent communications to the CRIMSON) and look at our problem of setting back the College time-table in its war-time setting...
Things do look bad, but a little privation only reminds us that we are at war,--a fact we are often wont to forget. Moreover, the mid-years are coming nearer and nearer, and the new law gives us a gentle hint to do a little work; Mr. Storrow's restriction may even save us from the annual post-examination call on Mr. Cram. To make Boston deader than it is seems an unnecessary blow, especially with New York revelling practically as of yore. Still, coal must be saved and until warm weather comes our motto must be: Off with...
...Before settling the matter, however, we should observe carefully the broad current of education and not forget that there are many forces tending to divert the stream of influence from Boston and New England...