Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attention of members and graduate-members of the Hasty Pudding Club is called to the old library rule that "all books must be returned within four weeks, under penalty of twelve and a half cents for each week's neglect." It is desirable that missing books be returned to the new rooms...
...most enthusiastic advocacy that we have yet seen of athletic exercises among students says: "If the ranking system included relative physical proficiency and attention to sanitation, it would be a sensible enlargement of the schedule. Failure to allow sufficient time for sleep, imprudence in diet, or neglect of exercise, might be marked, like a failure in a lesson, or like an error in deportment. The main tendency of the student's life may be indicated more by physical shortcoming than by any mental lapse...
...transept; not a flag floated in the breeze. Memorial Hall had another object besides that of a memorial; it was intended to educate the youth of Harvard College in patriotism. We cannot help asking if to disregard the laws of the State which made yesterday a legal holiday, to neglect on that day of all days recognition of the patriot dead, to leave Memorial Hall without decoration, is the best way to inculcate patriotism in the minds of the youth of the land? - [Globe, May 31st...
...themselves as to try a few feats daily, or to throw the hammer every afternoon, they would probably discover that this sport is not so difficult as it looks, and, having shaken that coat of "indifference," would raise the college records by livelier competition. Perhaps we may ascribe this neglect to the unavailable manner in which the shot and hammer are stored away. Let us suggest they be exposed to the public view. But this latter objection does not hold in regard to the running long jump, since the sod is always turned on Jarvis. The custom...
Although a strong northwesterly wind prevailed yesterday forenoon, the junior crew made the attempt to go over the course on time. They started a few minutes after eleven, and despite the fact that each wave washed considerable water into the boat, they pushed on. As it afterward proved, the neglect to put on the washboards proved fatal. When nearly 150 yards from the Union boat-house, the forward part of the boat was so full of water that something had to be done to relieve the heavy strain. Perceiving, with the true instinct of heroes, the imminent danger...