Word: lax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obligation requires a more detailed survey into a graduate's personality and special ability than a hasty appraisal of his college record. The positions must be made more competitive, either through stressing their honorific aspect, or increasing the stipend when possible. Finally, even the mechanics of advising are needlessly lax. Four 15-minute visits a year can never establish a worthy program. They can barely accomplish the business of course selection...
Charges of incredibly lax officiating came from both sides with Chase finally calling off the game because of the fight and the high tempers of the players...
...instituted the "hoax" deserve the thanks of the college for emphasizing the lax manner in which Council supervised elections are conducted. the men who actually supervised the election were "victims of the system." Final responsibility for permitting conditions under which such a thing could happen must be placed on the attitude of the Council as a whole, which has failed to follow the simplest and most obvious recommendations of its own Committee on class Affairs...
Fletcher Taft, resident manager of the community, admitted that dog owners had been lax in their observance of the rules, but said he had not considered mass extermination as a solution...
Here G.E. will fill a need that can be made the more clear by a brief study of the lax rules for distribution of courses. An undergraduate may take a year of geography, Italian history, and Fine Arts and have a broad enough knowledge to graduate from Harvard...