Word: lax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preparation of the food new suffers because of lax supervision in the kitchens, according to Bruce's report. The University will be urged to keep closer check on the stewards and to instruct them to keep a watchful eye on the chefs...
...Testimony presented to the Council has convinced us that the Club 100, while ostensibly operating as a private club, has actually been so lax in the enforcement of its rules that non-members have habitually patronized the club without ever having been asked to prove their memberships...
Currently appearing before apathetic and disinterested audiences in New York, "Temper the Wind" is a searching treatment of the lax and ineffective American occupation of Germany. It is a play with moral implications that should be of vital interest to the post-war world, yet it is received with nothing more than boredom and half-hearted approval. Written during the war years by two men speculating on the character of our German occupation in the event of an Allied victory, "Temper the Wind" is a somber prediction that has unfortunately come true. Accused of writing their play from today...
...possible solution, it suggested that the Committee on Admission's present "wide discretionary power" be used to encourage more strict secondary school preparation where it has become lax, at the same time admitting any student who has demonstrated his academic ability...
Fleming's report, to be submitted to Dean Hanford today, observed that "irresponsibility by students is encouraged by lax enforcement" of House parietal rules, that offenders are known principally to belong to a "small, chronic group" and that lack of uniformity in regulations from House to House encourages violators in the less liberal ones...