Word: lax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Very lax supervision . . . frequenting of one another's rooms . . . very considerable drinking...
...Young men and young women are, through force of circumstances, living with less protection from moral temptation than is desirable. It is known that, in some places where men and women students live in the same house, there is very lax supervision and that the frequenting of one another's rooms, both during day and night, is not at all unheard...
...some of the rooming houses young men, and young women are, through force of circumstances, living with less protection from moral temptation than is desirable. It is known that in some places where men and women students live in the same house there is very lax supervision and that the frequenting of one another's rooms, both during the day and night, is not at all unheard...
...after graduating shows a tendency to study hard and industriously, according to the Dean. This is the case with law and medical students, who work exceptionally hard. The student who does not see that his learning will soon be put to practice, however, shows a tendency to be very lax in his studying. This is especially true of the men specializing in the Liberal Arts...
Miss Gillmore translated into beauty and cynicism the playwright's conception of an American girl who has lived too long abroad. Deserting the lax and luxurious friends of her not too immaculate mother, she turns up in Florence with an American artist who is not her husband. Her long-suffering father and the mother of her artist arrive to create a difficult scene from which she flees with an Italian count for no very good reason. Back in Paris, she repents on her father's shoulder and departs for America ostensibly to reforge her rusty morals against...