Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...This is not as it should be. Where so slight an exertion as the mere filling out of a blank is requested, it should surely be willingly granted. The trifling inconvenience it might cause is utterly insignificant when compared with the annoyance which the Secretary must feel if many neglect...
...months, and the amount even then would be uncertain. A better source of aid was open - the internal revenue taxes. Here was a source of revenue, three times that estimated for this law. easily and economically collected, without popular friction or disturbance to trade. Why did Congress neglect it? Because popular clamor dinned its claims in one ear, while Congress turned the other to the gentle suggestions of the beer combine. The law is unjustifiable because of its radical defects. The special deductions allowed open wide the doors of evasion, and this and the high rate of exemption will largely...
...forget that the obligation to support a team is only increased by a temporary lack of success. That the nine has unfortunately met with several defeats at the beginning of the season, and has not played fully up to the hopes of the College, is far from excusing the neglect with which it has so far met. Students show themselves much too willing to credit rumors of the weakness of the nine; and rumor in this case, as usual, is in exaggeration of the truth. This, however, is from the point. We do not wish to urge attendance...
...which reliance may confidently be placed, and is therefore unbecoming in young boys, whose characters are necessarily unformed. The boarding school too often developes not true manliness, but rather a heedless independence which is incompatible with it. To put a boy in the way of such development the neglect of higher, is a grave mistake. Self-reliance should not be born of mere freedom from restraint, but of a consciousness of power which can hardly accompany the school boy's immaturity...
...recent fire in Weld will serve as an example to show what harm the neglect of this small precaution may cause. The fire was discovered almost as soon as it started, but several minutes were lost because the student that noticed it first did not know where to go to ring in an alarm. As it happened the fire was a small one, and was quickly put out by the Department, with no loss but the furniture of the room in which the fire started. If the conflagration had been of a more serious nature, and the same delay...