Word: neglect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coming shortly before Mid-years, these tests must cover in one hour an amount of material almost as great as that which later requires three, with the result that they neglect important portions of the semester's work or force too many questions into a short sixty minutes. In either case the resulting grades may be meaningless, and in either an injustice is done. This is a month when many men are preparing course theses, and to distract and divide their attention is to defeat the purpose of the new educational trend...
...unfortunate, almost disgraceful, that a University as rich as Harvard should so neglect such buildings as Holden, Harvard, and Massachusetts. It is high time that a committee of competent and interested men be formed for the preservation and restoration of these old buildings, priceless historically and architecturally, before they are completely denatured. It must not be said of Harvard that she encourages Mayan and Romanesque restorations, and so shamefully neglects the treasures in her own Yard! John P. Brown. President, The Georgian Society of America...
...will fall on out-of-state drivers who neglect to get their non-resident permits, according to a statement by Robert L. Devine, Supervising Inspector of Equipment of the Registry of Motor Vehicles...
...wants to raise every Italian boy to be a soldier, has discovered why, despite God, Nature and women, some Italians cannot become fathers. According to Research Director Allan Winter Rowe of Boston's Evans Memorial Hospital, the trouble with these peculiar Italians is that their thyroid glands neglect to secrete a newly-discovered hormone. The special duty of this hormone is to invigorate sperm cells. To reach and fertilize an ovum, a sperm cell must live at least 24 hours. Premier Mussolini found that the sperms of his peculiar Italians died before they were 12 hours old. Promptly...
...earn more than $300 or $400, if as much. As president Conant has pointed out, the undergraduate at Harvard should primarily partake of educational facilities and should not be shouldered with an unbearable financial burden. As a result, some men are forced to leave college and others must neglect their work and the outside interests which help to make College valuable...