Word: forgottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regular athletic duties. Likewise, one of his assistants is teaching in an undergraduate department. The Freshman football Coach, furthermore, is entering his second year as an instructor of history. These and other admirable examples that we could cite would seem to prove that we have not entirely forgotten that amateur ideal of sport...
...last year when he snatched a pass, and is a slashing defensive player as well. Coach Tasker of the Williamsburg aggregation has built up an offense around these two veteran back. Last year Harvard was primed for a vaunted aerial attack, so primed in fact that ordinary defense was forgotten and the Southerners changed their tactics and gained extensively on all sorts of world running plays...
...whole matter died away, but it was not forgotten. The loud grumbling of Delaware's Democratic Senator (see p. 10) was as nothing compared to rumors that presidential confidence could never again be respected as of yore; that the quaint rag-doll called "Spokesman" might be pitched aside and the President left without defense from his own tongue...
...little yellow pamphlet, but Harvard men saw red. The Next President of Harvard: A Prediction, said the title. The author was that suspicious creature, a pseudonymity; in this case, "Dolopathos," meaning "Suffering Slave," or as more cheerful souls who had forgotten their Greek translated, "Bad News." The publishers were S. Baldwin & Co. of Cambridge, a non-luminous fact. "Abbott Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard," read the first sentence, "will be 70 years old on December 13 of this year." What axiom could be more harmless? "He has occupied his high office for 17 years, has accomplished many striking and notable...
...follow them the only medium through which education of any kind can thrive freedom. What has been done through that medium since their time is the fault or virtue of their successors. At all events they were the best of that type called American. Nor can they be forgotten...