Word: lax
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...professions. The two professions are becoming more and more intimately are becoming more and more intimately connected with the life of the people and the standard of admission to them should be raised correspondingly higher and higher Especially is this true when the law on these matters is as lax as it is in some of the states. In the medical profession at least a man can practice in Massachusetts with very little to qualify him for good work. This is true perhaps, to a less degree, in the law. Every plan, then, for getting better educated...
...Reform in our divorce laws is necessary. - (a) Divorces are increasing greatly: Tribune Almanac for 1893, 212-213; C. D. Wright, Report on Marriage and Divorce, 77-113. - Present lax system affects stability of American institutions: Journal of Social Science, No. 14, 155-163. - (1) Bad effect on individual. - (2) On family: New Englander. XLIII. 61. - (3) On nation at large: Princeton Review, IX. 92. - (c) State laws vary on every point: Lloyd, The Law of Divorce, ch. VI. - (1) Grounds for divorce. - (2) Legal proceedings. - (3) Subsequent status of parties: Forum...
...national government ought to control divorces: Princeton Review, IX. 90. - (a) Excellent moral effect. - (b) Prevention of frauds: New Englander, XLIII. 57 - (1) Change of residence. - (2) Divorce-lawyers. - (c) Doing away with lax laws and loose proceedure: Journal of Social Science, No. 14, 152-155. (1) Utah. - (2) Illinois. - (3) Arizona until recently. - (d) Our mobile population put under one definite...
...held for the influence of Christianity. He spoke of the discouragement that St. Paul once felt in regard to the faith among the Thessalonians. Paul had passed through a period of severe mental strain, and, during the reaction, news had come to him that the Thessalonians were growing lax. He sent Timothy to them and expected him to bring back a bad reports, but to his joy it was the reverse; the Thessalonians had been misrepresented. It is often so; men grow moody over the outlook for the Christian religion, when the reports of its "decline" are in reality false...
...attention has been called to the fact that the seniors are negligent to the extreme in obtaining sittings for their class photographs. It is true they have a well established precedent before them; for, to the best of our knowledge every graduating class has been lax in regard to the matter. The present seniors, however, have not, on this account, any excuse for their continued negligence. The photographic committee has at last taken the only remaining step of making appointments for the men. Lists will be published in the CRIMSON from time to time, and we hope the men will...