Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...athletic activity. When this fame spreads over whole sections of the country, and college athletics become the most prominent matter of news in the daily papers, it is small wonder that the natural place of football, which attracts more intense interest than any other sport, should be entirely forgotten...
...deal that is indirect violation of the spirit of gentlemanly sport. When the whole attention is directed to the end the means which attain it are often by that very fact thought justified. This should not be so. The true sportsmanlike spirit, so often referred to yet so often forgotten, should be present at all times and under all circumstances, unflinchingly condemning the slightest deviation from gentlemanly play. Where rules must always fail, the cultivation of this spirit will raise football to its proper plane as probably the finest of athletic games...
...increased during the past thirty years, and secondly that the periods of residence for these degrees have been materially lengthened. This lengthening of residence is particularly striking in the case of the two large professional schools - those of Law and Medicine. On the other hand, it should not be forgotten that the practice of admission to advanced standing in the College has lately increased; so that many degrees of Bachelor of Arts are now conferred upon persons who have not completed a residence of four years. This fact more than counterbalances the effect on the other side of the account...
...know who are the furnishers of all this interesting information. It is scarcely possible that they are college men. But it does seem a shame that so much should go out to give the impression that the English language is quite forgotten in our colleges...
...Phillips delivered the funeral oration over the body of his friend Garrison. Five years later he laid down a life which had done for the cause of American liberty a deed which may not be forgotten by those who consider themselves true Americans. The eloquence, wit and sarcasm of Wendell Phillips were unequalled. His pity and sympathy, and his constant open-heartedness, were far-famed. His love for the city of his birth was intense, and he expressed it many times in his public speeches...