Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lives, we should be its masters and the governors of its destiny. But instead we have become the slaves of the machine; we run hither and thither in agony of futile haste; we compete where no end is served and no result achieved; we sweat over unloved tasks and neglect the true business of life; we erect and execute useless schemes, multiplying the worries of life, cluttering our days with rubbish, blasting Leisure and wasting our strength on this false and misbegotten ideal of "College Spirit." Columbia "Varsity...
...required for any professional or commercial career our youth tend to enter upon their life's work too late, and to lay the foundation for their career at a time when they should be actively engaged in it. That often creates a desire for knowledge directly useful to the neglect of despening and enlarging the outlook on life; an impatience with studies that would have been appropriate earlier, but are irksome when taken too late. Any youth of ordinary ability can be prepared for our examination at seventeen. At that age he is quite competent to pursue college courses...
...double value. Professor Shaler liked to speak of chapel as his daily "moral bath--as needful, sir, as the other." Most of us would be content with weekly applications. But to go through a year of college without knowing the genuine satisfaction of an Appleton service, is to neglect one of those opportunities which are almost obligations to one's self...
...month, but certain new books much in demand are loaned only for a period of fourteen days or a week. Borrowers who do not return their books on time incur a fine of five cents a day, Postal card notices are sent as reminders of books overdue. Persistent neglect to return books or pay fines becomes a matter for College discipline...
...necessity for the rulings of the Committee. What did make it seem highly advisable to remove the emphasis which has hitherto been placed on football was the fact that that emphasis, attracting as it did so much of the attention of the underclassmen, was misplaced, and contributed to the neglect of that for which students sometimes come to Harvard...