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Open play and hard running during the first half may wear Boston down. They have the edge on Harvard in experience, but the Crimson banks on their getting tired. (The average Boston Rugger's age is only 29.) Toward the end of the game, when they tire and become lax on defense, pressure will bear down...
Cornell succeeded in mounting only two or three threatening attacks. Perhaps as a result, the Crimson defense seemed lax in a way it cannot afford to be against a better opponent. Offensively, Harvard was often uninspired. The failure of the left wings to set up and take advantage of scoring plays was particularly apparent...
Palmer was much too lax for most of the populace. Letters denouncing him poured into the Justice Department. The New York Times sharply rapped him for his "ancient and outworn views" and his softness toward anarchists. Said Palmer later: "I was shouted at from every editorial sanctum in America from sea to sea; I was preached upon from every pulpit; I was urged-I could feel it dinned into my ears-to do something...
...Leary, have been as much propagandists for the drug experience as investigators of it. They are so convinced of the benefits of these drugs that they have dispensed with many normal research procedures; for example, they have conducted some of their experiments in highly informal settings. They have been lax about screening potential recipients of the drugs; indeed, they have urged many who have expressed a casual interest in the drugs to try them for themselves. Far from exercising the caution that characterizes the public statements of most scientists, Leary and Alpert, in their papers and speeches, have been given...
Suppose a boy has a father whose discipline is lax, which in the table is defined as "negligent, indifferent, allowing child to do what he likes." Since 59.8 per cent of the juvenile delinquents studied by the Gluecks had fathers whose discipline fitted this description, the boy would be assigned a score of 59.8 on the Social Prediction Table...