Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large part of this old equipment has been scrapped, is obsolete, ruined by time and neglect or converted to other uses. Last year only 2,700,000 barrels of ½% beer were sold. The Treasury in planning on beer taxes estimated the production capacity of the U. S. today at 20 to 30 million barrels in a year. On the assumption that 30 million barrels of beer will be made in the next twelve months, the requirements of the brewing industry in labor and raw materials ought to be about half what it was formerly...
This winter Spalding & Gabrilowitsch have twice chosen to combine their talents, to play sonatas for the piano and violin which most musicians either neglect or use to exhibit their individual virtuosity. Last week Manhattan's Town Hall filled quickly and completely to hear the team play Brahms's A Major Sonata, Mozart's B Flat Sonata, and Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata (socalled because Beethoven dedicated it to Rodolphe Kreutzer, a French violinist who never took the trouble to play it). Throughout the program the two submerged their personalities to make music that was perfectly balanced, completely...
These are my honest opinions. I have indicated above my limitations as to the tutorial system. Harvard expects a great deal of its professors and I feel that you should sympathize with us if sometime we neglect some phases...
...class V and VI students are generally so incompetent or so busy with other things that for them tutorial work is an imposition. If they neglect the reading, one can only amuse them for the period or review the reading for them. Both of these are useless procedures, wasting my time and theirs, so I ask them to either review their work or do their reading and return to see me. Exchanging mere opinions is more or less a waste of time...
...through well organized curricula and efficient and far sighted administrations, but without healthy bodies as complements to the human picture--then, all education is futile. These United States succeeded only too well during the rouge era to spread the gospel of profit for the institution at the expense and neglect of 90 per cent of the individuals who make up the institution...