Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...naturally in Italy, who had never forgotten her relationship to ancient Rome, and where the knowledge of Latin literature had never altogether died out, that the revival first took place. It may be said to have been begun early in the twelfth century with the study of Roman law. But it was not until two centuries later that Petrarch revived the study of the Latin classics. The promised land, however, of Greek antiquity he was only permitted to see from Pisgah. He could only weep over the Homer he could not read. The first Greek student of Western Europe...
Many years ago, before many of the college professors who decry foot ball were born, I was taught by an episode in ancient history a lesson I have never forgotten. As it is probably now omitted from the prescribed instruction, I will recall it briefly: A certain nation was waging war, and their opponents learned that fear of disfigurement took the place of courage, so, aiming at the face they carried off the victory...
Hardly a fortnight ago we printed an editorial commenting upon the alarming prevalence of petty thieving in the college. As we predicted at that time, the matter was passed over and forgotten, apparently no effort whatever being made by the proper authorities to put a stop to the nuisance by detecting and punishing the offenders. We are led to refer to the subject again because of a recent and daring case of theft. Last week a student, upon going to dinner at Memorial, hung his overcoat upon one of the hooks at the side of the hall. Imagine his supreme...
...they could. Every one of their men was warned, and one of the men was ordered off the field by the referee." We shall look to the next issue of the Record for congratulations to the Wesleyan team upon their "creditable showing." They convincingly showed that they had not forgotten how to play the Yale game with "such enthusiasm...
...degree to many of our fellow students. But all this, be it thankfully said, is changed now we must display a knowledge of analytics sufficient to gain a paltry forty percent. Algebra and trigonometry are things of the past now, and like all other relics of antiquity may be forgotten as speedily as possible. The only dark side to this blissful picture is the remorse which some men will feel who have squandered small fortunes in the unsuccessful attempt to tutor through the required examinations. After all, the new departure is a good one. It is a change which...