Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hour came, my name was called, and I marched up to the table once more, passing successfully the Cerberus with the pile of papers, who could find no flaw in my passport this time. The next man was the Rector, who asked me my name and nationality, having apparently forgotten my previous visit to him, and wrote them into their appropriate places in a large sheet before him, which I afterwards found was a sort of testimonial that I, "vir juvenis ornatissimus," &c., had entered the University and was enrolled among its students. No. 3 asked me the same questions...
...beach, I cannot drive the thoughts of that time from my mind. And I hold a bit of blue ribbon in my fingers; and, as I look, I cannot keep back the tears. "If I should not see you then, you would not forget me?" I have not forgotten, Mira...
...examinations, too, must not be forgotten. The examinations in a one-hour course are generally quite as severe and exhaustive as those in one which has more frequent recitations, while those who take these courses have the number of their examinations greatly increased and their time for study correspondingly lessened. In fact, we may sum up the objections to one-hour courses in a figure familiar to all who have taken Freshman Physics, and say that the friction is far too great in proportion to the work accomplished...
...Sophs, and is knocked down without the least ceremony. The indignant class rush forward to avenge their leader. Then one was deafened by the cries, - "At them, Freshies!" "Down with them, Sophs!" the Seniors urging on the Sophomores, and the Juniors the Freshmen. Soon the football was forgotten, and the game was wont to take the appearance of the traditional bloody rush. Usually the fight became so fierce that there was need of a band of proctors to clear the field. Often six or seven of the Sophs ruminated over this night's struggle for six months in some retired...
Bearing again to Olympus the words that were dead and forgotten...