Word: lax
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...prominence to high scholarship in the University, the graduate students at Harvard in cooperation with those of other institutions are taking the initiative in an effort to give to the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy, for which many of them are working, a significance which lax requirements in some universities and the granting of one or both degrees honoris causa in all, have in some measure destroyed...
...desire, nevertheless, to indicate two additional refutations to his general charge of severity; two so palpable that I had hoped he would not overlook them. First, that, however rigid or lax any system of marking may be, two different instructors can not, in the very nature of things, mark the same kind of work in the same way; we can not eliminate from them that excellent peculiarity called "the personal equation." Second, that the twelve o'clock section of English C (of which I am a member) is less in earnest than Professor Baker's sections; the reason being because...
...that of the other composition courses; so is that of the German and classical department. If the one course is subject to criticism on that score, so are most of the other collegiate courses. It can hardly be urged that the standard of English C should be more lax than that of the other prescribed courses just because English C is very distasteful to many of us. For an instructor to give men D who deserve E, is to attempt to right one wrong by doing another. I say "to right one wrong," for is it not really an injustice...
...undue influence. - (b) It would greatly increase the number of illiterate and unqualified voters: Forum II, 429; New Englander XLIII, 207. - (1) The women who would use it belong to the lowest classes in our cities. - (2) Competent women would not use it. - (c) It would give rise to lax laws and weaken the government: Forum IV, 1-5. - (1) Laws must be sanctioned by physical strength. - (2) The best governments are supported by a preponderance of physical force...
...they began rowing on the river, although they have had the most careful coaching from Kidder '92, and Mr. Watson. The tendency of the men throughout the boat is still to row their oars out of the water badly at the finish. The discipline of the crew is apparently lax when the men are rowing, and the time is often bad because of the tendency of several men to look out of the boat, a habit of inattention which cannot be too strongly condemned in a freshman crew just beginning its work on the river...