Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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ALTHOUGH it is very gratifying to have our virtues commended and our faults forgotten, we cannot expect to derive any real benefit from this kind of criticism. An unbiassed comparison, whether between individuals or institutions, is the only one conducive to marked improvement...
...hour examinations that we now have in most of the courses also tend to make the students knowledge real, and not an artificial knowledge crammed for the occasion, and mostly forgotten in a few days...
...Will not the father's speech, `Well, son, I trust that you have never forgotten to be a gentleman,' go through us like a knife, if we have any recollections of uproarious crowds of students in company with whom we boarded the cars with wild shouts and songs, and stamped and halloed until all the passengers were disgusted or enraged...
...trust that blase old Senior, when he says that the holidays no longer have their pristine charms for him. Believe it, the most pessimistic of us all is secretly muttering, - if he has not forgotten all his Latin, - "O domus, nunc te respiciam...
...intend to counsel extravagance, but we would suggest to the Committee that what is the cheapest in the beginning is sometimes the dearest in the end; and they should remember that the photographs will last, or at least are expected to last, long after we have forgotten the few cents more or less that we now pay for them. Still they should bear in mind that any considerable increase over the usual price will make a difference in the number that can be purchased. Whether the Seniors are to have good pictures of a few friends, or ordinary ones...