Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ought to be a great comfort to every college student whose life-work is still a mystery to him to learn that success is a simple matter of training. If one would be a Shakespeare, a Bismarck, or a Newton, let him forget the "bete noire" of special gifts, of adverse talents and misapplied genius, and go through the necessary ritual of preparation. That is all there is to it--at least, according to Professor John B. Watson, formerly professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins University...
...they should have had it. They did not complain, nor did they shed tears about it, but still they perhaps think that it would have been nice if they had had their Christmas fun also. If would have cheered them up and made them forget their troubles for a while. We must see that hereafter they will not be omitted...
Sensitive Jüngling had chronic attacks of gooseflesh. At a certain beer garden in Berlin, a fat, elderly man was seen to order a stein of beer and forget it in the excitment of reading the evening shocker...
...like those of other universities, run the whole gamut of civilized mankind. We have never seen any real indication that one type predominates over a thousand others. The typical Harvard man and the Harvard manner are both of them a myth. Some day, we hope, the public imagination will forget it. The Boston Transcript...
...forwards, was particularly brilliant. The latter was the high scorer with six field goals and one free throw, but both were very clever in handling and passing the ball. At times the team work of the freshman quintet seemed to go to places. Slocum especially had a tendency to forget the rest of the team and play for himself. But these rough spots always crop out in early season games, and will undoubtedly be smoothed over before the regular schedule starts on January...