Word: lax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This must not be construed as a defense of boring, technical lectures, for interesting lectures must always be the aim of all good teachers. Rather it is a criticism of the lax and unintellectual way in which many elementary courses are run. The subject matter of every course should be treated completely, profoundly, and without any attempt at sugar-coating or popularizing at the expense of intellectual understanding...
Seniors, after being more or less exposed to the influence of the tutorial system for three years are more than loath to take up once more the assigned application of a science course. Few indeed there are who have been lax enough to let it slide until then, but those few who have done so, would, at this time in their college career, shout hosannas if they had been required to pass off the requirement when their minds were still freshly imbued with prep school parlance...
...catch-all investigation threw new light not only on the profits of brokers (see p. 66) but also on closed Cleveland banks. For the failure of $250,000,000 Union Trust Co. and $148,000,000 Guardian Trust Co. Ferdinand Pecora's staff blamed: 1) mismanagement; 2) a lax-Ohio Banking Department; 3) evasions of the spirit of the law. The investigators declared that Guardian Trust was "hopelessly insolvent" a year before it was closed by the banking moratorium, never to reopen, that it "has never published a statement of condition which has shown the true facts." Last month...
...necessary requirement. None of the elementary courses in these fields stimulates the student to think scientifically, and the laboratory periods are definitely not conducive to such thinking. Very often this is due to poor assistants who are put in charge of the laboratory sections and to the lax manner in which the courses are run. The first difficulty can be met by placing men well-qualified in their field in charge of laboratories. The second difficulty is probably attributable to the large number of Freshmen who are registered in these courses. No special consideration, however, should be given them...
...lives were lost, 700 tattered moppets marched down to the City Hall bearing banners: "We Don't Want'to Burn to Death." Under New York law a tenement is any building housing three families or more. But to a New Yorker tenements mean those built under the lax laws existing prior to 1901. All but four of the 48 deaths in recent tenement fires occurred in "old law" buildings of which New York City has 67,000, most of them dating back to the Civil War. One-half of them are equipped with rusty vertical ladder escapes long...