Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Baker then spoke briefly on the literary activities of the College. He warned the new men, on the one hand, against impatience in writing and neglect of technique; and on the other hand, against feeling discouraged over temporary failure. His closing remarks dealt with the value of debating as a help to men desirous of forming intellectual friendships...
...abandonment of the plan to organize the class crew substitutes into four-oared crews and to maintain them in connection with the class crews is, on the whole, for the benefit of the men who would be in the fours. The coaches would have been forced to neglect them for the eights which are, of course, of the first importance, while now by joining their respective Weld crews, they can get plenty of coaching and at the same time raise the standard of those crews...
...very few can do much towards counteracting the consideration which the rest of their class-mates are willing to give. For example, about half a dozen men in the first page of engravings, one on the second, three on the third, and four on the fourth page, through indifference, neglect, or other unknown cause, are serving as an antidote to the prompt attention which over one hundred other Seniors gave. As the "other unknown causes" might include some such substantial one as sickness, the committee refrains for the present from publishing lists. Any Seniors who failed to keep the assignment...
...more generally recogized, and at least ought to have some regular place for practice next year. It is the kind of sport which President Eliot strongly advocated in his recent talk on athletics, requiring skill before strength and not calling for such hard or extensive training as to necessitate neglect of college work or other interests...
...Sanders Theatre this evening on "A Danger to Honest Government." The subject is well chosen at this time, referring as it does to the possibility that the President, in order to conciliate congressmen and obtain the legislation which he considers necessary to the welfare of the country, may neglect the interests of civil service reform so necessary to honest government...