Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present head, and few gentlemen can be found who will quite fill his place. The scholarly president whose work for his college has made it a power throughout the country, can feel assured that his labors for the past fourteen years among the students of Yale will not be forgotten. His work is its own reward. And if he feels that he should still persist in his present action, we trust that no effort will be spared to engage a gentleman who will prove in every respect a worthy successor...
...blood of the incoming freshman, though in the events chronicled he had no part. Certain it is that the successes of last year will form an oft read chapter in the athletic history of Harvard, and that the names of STORROW, WINSLOW, ATKINSON, and WILLIAMS will not soon be forgotten among the undergraduates at Cambridge...
...half a dozen questions within the limit of three or four hours, shows either ignorance or imbecility. To pass an examination with success, we must not know, but only seem to know, and the man who plays the sophist best will gain the best place. It seems to be forgotten that the knowledge needed for passing an examination, and the knowledge needed for producing a great book or a great discovery, are essentially different, and therefore that the talent required in the two cases is also essentially different. At present the Chinese theory is in full possession of the public...
...examination, and after two or three days' work the last 24 hours should be passed without any time being given to the subject of the next day's ordeal. Few have the coolness or self-confidence required to pursue this policy. There is always something that has been forgotten to be looked up, and one last look is apt to suggest another. Tutoring is also extensively resorted to, and the students who are willing, for a consideration, to give their time to aiding their backward companions are kept busy. Some men make a business of this tutoring, and, if successful...
...rockets and red fire, saluted by the wild "rah, rah" of a thousand students, serenaded by the weird strains of the Brass Band, which played, replayed, and then played over again the only air it had attempted to master,- "Yale men say." Nor will the saturnalia that followed be forgotten for many a year,- by the proctors, at least...