Word: neglectful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...student who is dropped for neglect of his studies into a lower class shall be debarred from taking part in any intercollegiate contests until the end of the next academic year or until he is permitted by the faculty to rejoin his class...
...other hand, there is everything to be said against seminars. It is perfectly evident that they tend to defeat the real purpose of the University, for they not only make it possible for men to stay here without working, but they even encourage a shameful neglect of duty which must bring discredit upon the University. The minute a man wilfully neglects his work he shows himself out of harmony with the institution and anything which encourages him in this neglect must be an evil. Moreover, the price charged for seminars is so high that, even were they a good thing...
...time that men recognized the fact; but, in realty, it is triumphant over crititism and proves its claim to be the book most useful and helpful to humanity. It is a book that is full of strength and encouragement for everyone, and no man can afford to neglect it. The activity of the student is ever profitable but never more so than when his attention is directed to the Bible...
...work which is being done in the gymnasium by the classes and by individuals who exercise alone is very significant and very gratifying. There has been an undoubted tendency in the last few years to neglect gymnasium work for athletic games, and so far has that tendency gone that there is danger of entirely losing sight of the idea of exercise for the sake of sound bodies; the idea of athletics for the sake of beating Yale has become the all-important thing. The training for athletic teams is now carried to such a point that it becomes a long...
...announcement of a course of lectures on English literature by Mr. Copeland, the first of which is to be given tonight. Mr. Copeland has shown that he appreciates what seems to us one of the worst features of college life and of nineteenth century life in general, namely, the neglect of reading. Not only is the art of reading aloud obsolescent, but the habit of reading even to onesself seems in danger of being left behind in the rush and complexity of our modern life. In college we have so many things to attend to that we cannot spare time...