Word: recollected
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...practice has become so universal and annoying that each year the class day committee find it more and more difficult to make contracts with dealers to supply lanterns. The lanterns are rented to the class and not sold, and when a man takes one of these lanterns he must recollect that he is doing great injustice to the senior class and to the college, and that he is making more and more work for each later class day committee. We hope that the practice will be given up this year...
...feet from morning till night, and in the course of the day's wanderings made several arduous ascents, taking no rest and neither eating nor sleeping. At night when he reached a place where he could supply his needs he was unable, to his great astonishment, to recollect a single word of the German language, although he ordinarily spoke it with fluency. His memory did not fail him in any other respect, he knew his own language as well as ever, and recalled perfectly all the incidents of the day. As soon as he had thoroughly rested and had eaten...
...personal appearance, according to my present recollection of him as I recall the scenes of those early days, his figure was slight and erect; his complexion light and delicate as a maiden's, with a slight bloom upon the cheek; his nose rather prominent; his eyes clear and blue, his well formed head covered with a profusion of light brown hair, waving loosely in the same manner as the gray locks of age. I have seen a portrait in his parlor in Cambridge that gives a good idea of him in his early life as I recollect...
...knows how hard it is to select one's courses for three years. Of course it is very easy for one to name the courses he would like to take while in college, but unfortunately he does not have a free choice. In the first place he must recollect that he has but three years in which to take these courses, and that he must not overload himself if he wishes to gain the greatest possible amount of advantage from each course. Therefore he is obliged to "weed out" the less desirable courses until he has left the amount...
...Lampoon says that Jarvis Field has become a bake-shop since some fielders have turned their attention to muffin rolls. Lampy must recollect that flies are troublesome...