Word: neglectful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...should incur it, however lightly he may count the penalty which he himself has to pay. We speak here only of the athlete, for it is not our purpose to lay down any of the general principles of common sense no less than of morality, which condemn the wholesale neglect of college work for college play...
...attaching to it he is bound to underestimate if he does not, as is too often the case, overlook it entirely. The result is lamentable. At his most susceptible age, the age at which he is most imitative, all the influences of example seem to be in favor of neglect of mental development for physical. The boy naturally hopes for a successful college career, and the only road to success seems to him to be through athletic achievement. To this, therefore, he devotes all his energies, to the great detriment of his mental training...
Clyde Augustus Duniway opened the negative for Harvard and affirmed the real practical nature of the question. He admitted that evils do exist, but denied the efficacy of the method proposed in the question. He then presented opinions of many prominent city officials and laid the blame to the neglect of the well to do citizens. The point followed that a property qualification would not awaken these better classes to any better sense of their duty to their city and its welfare...
...freshman class is showing an unfortunate tendency to neglect its baseball team, at least as far as subscriptions for its support are concerned. The running expenses of the team are necessarily considerable, and they must be in large part defrayed by contributions from the class. It is in matters like this that the real strength of class feeling can be tested, since students generally part reluctantly with money, unless for some object in which they feel a live interest. Ninety-eight, if she lacks in class interest, should yet have class pride enough to prevent her from leaving any deficit...
...endeavor of a man to give expression to that which is best within himself. The beautiful, it has been said, is greater than the good because it includes the good. We come nearest to the beautiful in poetry, indeed the test of poetry is its beauty. The neglect of poetry, and the consequent failure to appreciate the beautiful in art, not only deprives one of the most pleasurable of intellectual resources, but dulls the moral sensibility, and robs the character of its beauty and dignity. On the other hand a love for poetry transforms a man from a solitary individual...