Word: forgotten
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Electing the divestment candidates would be a first step for alumni toward reclaiming a voice in the governance of the University which has been too long muted or forgotten. The Board of Overseers has traditionally rubber-stamped the decisions of the seven-member Corporation, which holds legal title and authority over all that Harvard owns and does, but the overseers do have the power to approve, and to disapprove, the Corporation's decisions...
...White House, LaRouche has been reveling in his newfound notoriety since two of his followers won the Democratic nominations for Lieutenant Governor and secretary of state in the Illinois primary. LaRouche, 63, a Communist before shifting to right-wing populism in the early 1970s, thundered that the "forgotten majority" had selected him to "stick it to Washington." Now that he was in the public eye, he gloated to reporters, "you can't put the genie back in the bottle...
...complete sentences. Following this study, several professors of large science courses increased the number of their writing assignments. In yet another study, surveys of students a year after completing the basic course in economics disclosed that most of them had retained the concepts they had learned but had forgotten much of the terminology and had spent little time reading articles about economic questions in newspapers and magazines. These results led to course revisions which weeded out some terminological detail, emphasized the conceptual material, and substituted contemporary issues on place of the abstract, classical problems previously given to the class...
...morass of statistics provides a sound basis for objective discussion of Harvard's evolution as a world-renowned institution, but numbers alone do not make particularly enthralling reading. The authors seem to have forgotten that they do not have a captive audience in a lecture hall. Their writing is unoriginal, occasionally sloppy, and often repetitive. Facts overlap; the same figures reappear in separate essays, with the same glib descriptions: President John T. Kirkland is always "charming," President Charles W. Eliot is "the right sort," George Santayana is eccentric. All of the characters are flat. The authors, some of whom...
...landing of bigger and better research grants? Both the faculty and the University benfit. But what about the students? Who will pick up the slack if junior members are freed from classroom responsibilities? The senior faculty, even if they could be found within state lines, have probably forgotten how. Maybe they could hire baby-sitters...