Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government, either the nation or the state. The problem is so to administer the municipal government that its services will be given alike to all its citizens because they are citizens, and not because they have any political pull. The greatest danger to which we come is from neglect, and from having our government pass into the hands of those who run it for their own selfish purposes by making the city administration a personal and political machine for the benefit of those who control it and whose activities are to be used largely as favors...
...hard now and give just as much for those men who fought for us and are back among us, broke in body or in mind. Do you not almost hear the boys who died in France saying: "We died, but sent them home to you--don't, don't neglect them now." Do you realize that your own Red Cross in Cambridge has given up all other activities and is caring in many different ways and with the strictest economy for more than one thousand disabled service men? To continue this work properly, as you would have it done...
...judging such a question it is a common error for Americans to neglect to put themselves in the position of those they criticise. We, for example, cannot imagine any one regarding a lizzard as a common "animal" any more than we expect to find monkeys infesting the trees in Central Park. We therefore jump to the conclusion: As a matter of fact, the Argentines have the very best reasons for regarding the lizzard as worthy of protection. No doubt the latter is as familiar a sight down there as the common cat is in this country...
...undergraduate, frequently with dubious results. But if we, the objects of so much investigation would make an effort to actively record our sensations at various stages of the procedure, we may possibly spare tome wear and tear on future specimens. In any event no Senior should neglect this opportunity to write, for the common welfare, his brief but poignant treatise on "How I Would Run the College...
...seeking a really broad education this is a distinct hardship. Either they must neglect their college work or they must sacrifice some of the intellectual opportunities that present themselves in and around Cambridge...