Word: lax
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...refereeing of hockey games during the past season and several previous seasons as well has been unsatisfactory. The application of rules has varied with the various officials, and penalties have been lax. With the intercollegiate committees in football and track as models, there is little excuse for the continuation of this inefficiency...
Finances in those days were far from stable. Following the panic of 1873 advertisers were none too ready, the printers were close in collecting their bills, and subscribers were lax in payment. Many times the editors went down in their own pockets for an advance guarantee, that the next issue might appear. Not until 1879, indeed, were these conditions bettered, when a campaign of soliciting custom for advertisers put the paper on its feet...
...undergraduate activities' which help so much in the development of the well-rounded man, should be condemned; but for all of these and a much higher standard of work there is ample time in the twenty-four hours of the day. The truth is that college students have the lax habit of thinking that college work and engagements should follow, not take precedence of, the pressing engagements of undergraduate activities, the social life of the College, and the outside world...
...purposely avoid a defence of the CRIMSON'S policies and methods. What is objectionable in the Monthly's attack is its wholesale and biased attitude of muckrake. For instance, we are told editorially that the "English of its stories ... is lax, incorrect, even worse than that of the average daily paper." Although the work is entirely done by untrained undergraduates it is fair to say that its print is clearer, its grammar purer, and its typographical mistakes fewer, than that of almost any daily paper in the country. Indeed through the whole series of Monthly articles...
...action on the part of the Graduate Treasurer of Athletics in abolishing this malpractice is a great step forward in putting athletics upon a sound business basis. Under the old regime, when book-keeping was lax and expenses unnecessarily large, gifts to the Athletic Association were an easy way of making both ends meet. Now, however, with receipts and expenditures carefully supervised, the necessity of subscriptions no longer exists. Mr. Garcelon deserves high praise for his recent action and for the administration which made it possible...