Word: oblivion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...aftermath of war is always made awful with the suffering of those whom war has passed over but has not spared. It is not the men who die in battle, glorious and brave in their oblivion of the selfish animal instincts for self-preservation at any cost, who are pitiful. It is rather those who are left. Of such are the children of French soldiers who have fallen in battle...
...list of men who passed their entrance examinations with distinction is printed in the CRIMSON this morning; and it resurrects from oblivion achievement that is well worth being recorded. Formerly there was no incentive except conscience to spur a candidate on to do more than merely pass his examinations. An exceptionally good book relieved for the instructor the monotony of the reading, but brought little recognition for the writer. Now, by means of this list and the Phi Beta Kappa trophy, the spur of an honor, which is not hid under a bushel lends interest even to the ordeal...
...absence of prompt redress on the part of nature, it is suggested that the University bestir itself. A squad of doughty men with shovels to alter the topography of the slush piles, and to dig little trenches so that certain demi-lakes may empty themselves into oblivion, could still accomplish wonders. Days ago, the need for such a squad was "crying"; it is still acute...
...contender in the next intercollegiate by hard work and a general awakening of interest in track as a sport. Most men have the makings of track athletes in one of the many branches of the sport. But even the best latent sprinters and embryo shot-putters will remain in oblivion if they do not come out for track earnestly. Cornell's victory is an object lesson in the value of training and the possibilities of raw material which the University may well emulate; in fact, we must do so if any success in track is to be hoped...
...make of it a self-operating institution. This year leaders seem conspicuously absent. According to the testimony of the fourteen members of the Federation who attended the meeting in the Union last evening to hear Dr. Fitch, the handbook, having no definite custodian, has strayed off the road into oblivion somewhere between here and last September. It was established with an ideal worthy of a better fate. If the Territorial Clubs are insistent upon dying, it will, we suppose, descend eventually to that already overburdened organization--the Student Council--for support. But if the Territorial Clubs can revive sufficiently...