Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three of the colleges strongest in track sports, a meet where the interest and support of our graduates and undergraduates will mean a lot to the Harvard track team in its final outdoor meets. Cornell and Dartmouth men are supporting their teams in unexpected numbers. Harvard men must not neglect this opportunity to show their track team in its final and most important contest of the winter season that the same spirit is back of them that helped to produce an unbeaten football team last fall. FRED. W. MOORE '93. Graduate Treasurer H.A.A...
...must one neglect the great oases in the desert. Lecturers like those of Haskins and Kittredge at Harvard, of Farrand at Yale, of Morse Stephens at California, of Gildersleeve at Johns Hopkins, have marked a great epoch in American education. They have been something more than careful digests of accessible information. There has gone into them the living blood of rich personality, and the student is a different personality for having heard them. And there are special subjects, like psychology and logic, which are taught in America with a like and equipment unequalled in England...
...with the advent of the elective system, students are apt to make the mistake of thinking that all the secrets of the world are to be stored in their minds in four brief years (a task that ages of men have not accomplished), and with this wild hope they neglect to search themselves, see wherein they are weak where a course in mathematics would conduce to accuracy, a course in philosophy to a power of detachment, a course on Shakespeare to an understanding of human nature--in short, where study would strengthen them to meet the facts of life...
...were widest awake. Universities and colleges complain bitterly that their greatest men, the heads of their departments, cannot be kept because of the poor salaries offered. Endowment drives are under way for the main purpose of keeping the great minds in the teaching profession. But do not let us neglect the foreman of education--the section man. He is the future professor. Without a good foundation the upper stratum of a faculty cannot hope to survive...
...Neglect to repeat sermon, 9 pennies...