Word: forgottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fearing to attempt this been less cowardly than discrete. If they can do this then they may effect some good. At least it is encouraging to see in this one more evidence of the college undergraduate of today in assisting to make the bugabears of the past and present forgotten chimeras in an immediate tomorrow...
...much as they are necessary to strengthen and illumine the lives and minds of those who come to Harvard must be maintained; those which could the issues, which handicap the university in her attempt to meet with the greatest facility her obligation as an American university must be forgotten...
...test the work of the first half year on the final examination. It is a minor rule because it is an orphan. No one seems to enforce it or obey it. Hence there can be no protest against the educational injustice it might inflict by demanding detailed knowledge best forgotten. In its present status, the rule evokes comment only on the mild absurdity of its existence...
...nameless author: "The Pulitzer prize is a very silly thing. Prizes given to reporters, cartoonists, editorial writers, advertisers have some relevance because they bring to public notice fine work which would otherwise be forgotten, but a prize given to a well-known novel, play, poem, has the effect of making people think of that piece of work as "the best." There is no best. Nor is the prize money much help to the writer that has received it. It comes to him only after he has achieved some major success; and to give a man $1,000 for a novel...
...brown bees of Ireland are never forgotten, in their clean skips by golden-thatched cottages. And blue turf smoke is there, and all the birds of Ireland...