Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last meeting, for instance, the question, was raised as to the advisability of buying unimproved, land before the University needs it. Neglect to do this for lack of funds has cost the University heavily, in the end. The doing so leads the University into expenditure which is somewhat speculative. Of course, the answer depends upon the conditions in each case, but some-answer has to be given the Treasurer...
...suspension from the University for several years. But in the days of James Russell Lowell it implied only removal to the country where the undergraduate was given into the improving hands of a minister for a few months. Lowell himself, in 1838, was rusticated, though many of his biographers neglect to mention it. His stay in the country coincided with Class Day and he was forced to allow his class poem to be read by a friend...
...illustrate the diversity of the questions considered, some of the subjects follow: "A Renovation of English A"; "Commons, or Memorial Reborn"; "Intellectual Initiative and the Preparatory School Spirit"; "More leisure to think"; "Modern Languages, their Neglect and Support"; "Divisionals"; "The American College and the English University, or the American University"; "Do you know your Professors"; "Harvard as the Birthplace of Another Literature...
...Senate had just vigorously asserted its right--and duty--to investigate the qualifications for office of the President's nominees. Its neglect of this obligation in Sargent's case is quite inconsistent and unpardonable. No sooner had it displayed total disregard for the President's judgment by twice rejecting his first choice for this post, than, with implications of unbounded faith; it approved an unknown man without a murmur. the principle that any nominee offered by the President is to be accepted unless shown to be unfit may conduce to efficient administration. But to sanction a man's appointment...
...Physics Laboratories, such as they were, and four recitation rooms, one for each of the college classes. This was Holden in its heyday of which Edward Everett wrote "the Chapel was Holden" the entire university." But as new buildings were added Holden sank once more into obscurity and neglect, from which it has not recovered to this...