Word: oblivion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Divinity, Doctors of Law, etc., is turned loose upon an unsuspecting community that had, up to that time, lived in blissful iignorance of the latent talent wasting in its midst, and destined to be lost forever to the world, had not some keen-sighted, discriminating institution rescured it from oblivion. Two years ago our 'reform governor' was the involuntary means of lopping off one branch of the abuse at Harvard, but even this moderate reform was repudiated by a sister college. The fact that a man eats a commencement dinner or makes himself the patron of a college is hardly...
...confess it is with a certain feeling of regret that we consign the name, Herald, to the past, although we hope, not to oblivion. The present board has been so strongly identified with every matation in the fortunes of the Herald, with all its ups down, that, if well-known 'indifference' did not prevent us, we should almost feel tempted to drop atear on its sepulchre. And out of the varying fortunes of the Herald the DAILY CRIMSON comes; Let us hope that in its new guise; the paper may continue the prosperous career it has hitherto...
Ocean ! in thy depths I'll hide me, in oblivion find delight...
...with the language. Four years have been invested, so to speak, in Greek. From merely a profit and loss point of view, is it better for one to go on a year or two more reading masterpieces of the literature, or to let what he has acquired go to oblivion ? Let freshmen seriously look at this view of the case before deciding to drop the classics after the first year...
...Dublin, Ireland. The details in this volume are often very curious. One married lady from Russia, with amiable reverence for truth, gives her maiden name in full. Something of the same spirit possessed the party of eight young ladies and gentlemen, who record that they were "locked in." The oblivion of youth heeded not the page's cry, "Library closed...