Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...genteel manners, and the fame of his merry-makings." Dismal are his conclusions drawn from the contrast. The author treats his text under the following sub-heads: 1. "We are an insulated community;" 2. "College is a place where the great purpose of all is apt to be forgotten, and their most valuable possession - i. e., time - to be unappreciated;" 3. "We live here in an undomestic and unsocial state." On the second head he says very finely: "This great purpose is study. Now this is much more difficult, and requires much more moral exertion to devote one's self...
...Latin and Greek ode in the Commons-Hall gave a classical air to the festivity of the entertainment; and a brilliant illumination and pleasant ball in the evening, closed the duties and the enjoyments of a day, which for its immediate interest and consequent effects will never be forgotten in the walls of Harvard...
...looking-glass, and the consequence is that not only women, but men, also, are apt to wear a fortune in diamonds and other noticeable ornaments within the space of a few inches on their breast, and leave the nether parts to take care of themselves. It should not be forgotten that in nine postures out of ten assumed by the body at rest or in motion, the extremities are the most noticeable, and should be cared for accordingly. How many more flaring neckties we see than well-kept hands and nails? I refer more particularly to scarf-pins than neatly...
...theatre since his inauguration - and went behind the scenes between the acts, so that Mlle. Rhea might be presented to him. 'I admire all of Washington very much,' she said in reply to a question. 'And all Washington admires you very much,' gallantly responded the President, who has not forgotten how to charm the fair sex as adroitly as he manages politicians...
...This day shall be forgotten hereafter...