Word: oblivion
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...guard to fade from the Harvard picture; he will not be the last. An officer modelled on the lines of an Endicott would slip with little grace into an underling's post beneath a new financial vice-president. It is fitting that the Comptroller should prefer oblivion to ignominy...
...like all true fresco, had been painted into a coat of plaster. The workmen tried to get it off in big chunks, save as much as they could. But they claimed later that once broken, the great fresco crumbled into powder which was wheeled out of the lobby to oblivion. Speedily the workmen slapped a fresh coat of plaster on the scarified wall. Next morning a faint smell of new plaster was the lobby's only clue to the night's deed...
...could not temporize or adopt any half measures, that he must accept the Fascist doctrine in toto. One may, accordingly, look for the disappearance of Dollfuss's party in the near future; and, I think that it is also extremely likely that Dollfuss himself will soon follow it into oblivion, for the Heimwehr will eventually be absorbed into the larger fabric of Italian or German Fascism, and the little chancellor will then find that he will be no longer needed. Two other causes also make his continuance in power a highly dubious matter. The first is the fact that...
...Dean recognizes the rising scholastic standards of recent years, correctly attributes them to the tutorial system and general examinations, and concludes that the time has come when University Hall can safely afford to scrap much of the prep-school machinery of the past. Among the existing institutions nominated for oblivion are the checking up in attendance at classes, the recording of April and November grades, and the probation system. Whether the abolition of probation would serve any very useful purpose is questionable, but the other two reforms are eminently to be desired and, as the Dean points out, there...
...most gracefully self-sufficient in the face of the most varied circumstances. I know that I am not speaking for myself alone when I say that I had rather send forth one such man than be the lauded agent in dragging the poor bones of the dead from the oblivion to which they are committed by time's kindly hand. Alston H. Chase...