Word: forlorn
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dangers or, if there were, as if the best part of a college education was not to get the rub of them. Hence it happened that I then formed no personal association with my classmates, and always felt remote and as if I presented the picture of a forlorn little fellow who ought to have been at home. To this day I have never got over an awe of them that I have never had of anybody else. . . . I recollect no instruction which was not of the most perfunctory and indifferent sort, unless possibly it was that of Professor Cooke...
...embarrassment or reticence should keep any man from the gathering; it is intended for every Harvard man who needs it to fill up his day. In the past it has, and tomorrow it will, make something more out of Thanksgiving day for those who stay at College than a forlorn absence of recitations...