Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficulty with the tutorial system is twofold; first as regards the tutees and, second, as regards the tutors. The average Sophomore thinks the tutorial work is unimportant because no grades are given in it. If he has to neglect something. It will be tutorial work. It is easier to bluff in that than in anything else, and he is inclined to view it as a lot of extra work that does not help much. As divisionals get closer the interest in the tutorial work increases, but a lot of time has been thrown away. On the other hand, the tutors...
...regard to Senior honor candidates who neglect those courses in which they have been excused from the April hour and final examinations. Dean Hanierd says that a still longer period of experimentation and careful study of the situation should be made, and that each Department should make an investigation of its undergraduate courses to see that they bear a close relation to the field of concentration.Leighten Reports on Freshmen
...inevitable outcome of the heedless materialism that characterized the twenties, a materialism accompanied by a expanding complex that blinded public educators to the fundamentals of education. The motives which prompted communities to erect palatial surroundings for the secondary school system were doubtless admirable, but they tended automatically toward the neglect of the standards of teaching, and they were expensive. If the first of these effects has, by its lesser concreteness, been concealed from public attention, the second has been painfully obvious. For the long term loans which made the physical improvements possible were made in terms of inflated values...
Features of the first issue: a lament by Havelock Ellis over the neglect of the psychophysical processes of sex in medical education; an article by Ernest Boyd deriding the pseudo-erudition of the U. S. aesthete, the New Humanists, and what he called The New Republic of Letters; a humorous comparison of U. S. and English publishers by Frank Swinnerton; an insane courtroom scene by Ring Lardner parodying the incoherent meanderings of James John Walker's defense counsel in the ex-mayor's trial before Governor Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.); a vitriolic attack on the Church...
...Henderson begged and pleaded for "caution" the Congress ignored him, cheered to the echo a "labor intellectual," Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (onetime President of the Board of Education) who proposed to block the possibility that men like Arthur Henderson (onetime Foreign Secretary) may ever again enter a Cabinet and neglect to fight from the Government bench for "Socialism in our time!" Amid proletarian pandemonium, intellectual Sir Charles moved this resolution: "On assuming office, with or without power, definite Socialist legislation must immediately be promulgated by the next Labor Government and the party shall stand or fall in the House...