Word: oblivion
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...memories we shall keep bits of prose and poetry of quality given us in the pages of the earlier numbers of the Magazine. We shall leave to oblivion occasional lapses into the sensational, and ventures toward the goal of publicity for publicity's sake. We shall try to forget the dying periodical's monstrously serious efforts to clamber up on a platform of representation of the University and reformation of all its faults. We shall regret that humorous appreciation of its own foibles did not come sooner to the Magazine--though we may imagine that even a faint consciousness...
...University seems able to support but one magazine of serious literature. If the existing one falls short a competition is needed to stir it from its lethargy or to replace it. Once more Mother Advocate has tasted the elixir of youth and her opponent has followed the Monthly into oblivion...
...will be a parade to the field behind a band, and the Dartmouth game will be played to the accompaniment of a cheering section of pre-war volume. With adequate outside support, the prime essential hitherto lacking this year, the minor problems of the ball team will fade into oblivion...
...utilize its buildings, in the expectation of assisting in the successful prosecution of the war, but it is sorry that this city has been the butt of governmental inefficiency. Doubtless the school has done much good, but we are as glad to see the blue horde passing into oblivion, as they...
...lassitude. The expression "contains as much moral poison as a two-word phrase can hold", and it aims to dull the conscience into accepting the kind of listless existence it signifies. The man who says he is "getting by" is merely drifting with the current into the sea of oblivion. When the fighting spirit of races as well as of individuals runs low rapid degeneration inevitably follows. And when high resolve and constant initiative relax their powers, then the loser is morally poor indeed; for he has dropped out of the race in life and but impedes...