Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bright Side. Mr. Gilbert, having delivered a reprimand, did not neglect to praise, wrote...
...Board of Overseers. It is not that a Board made up entirely of Boston or Cambridge graduates would not prove as effective as one whose membership included graduates from between the two coasts; men attaining the honor of Overseerships have Harvard's interests too close at heart to neglect her welfare or to ignore any one of her many compound parts. The reason for this move, and the objection to Mr. Wister's proposal lies in the significance of the Board and the part it plays in all phases of Harvard life. As the dominating group influence in the government...
When the Middlebury Campus views with severe alarm and stoic horror the erection of such a dormitory as the proposed Varsity, now planned for the Mount Auburn regions, it ignores the havoc wrought by time and neglect. Such lavishness may at first appear too Roman for a New England college but experience has shown that the saviour of youthful virility lies in the fact that eventually the "porters" will dwindle into a lone and not over magnificent janitor; that the "maids and bellboys", if such there be, will fade into legend: that the pomp of circumstance will prove disappointingly evanescent...
Flaying both Republicans and Democrats for neglect of fundamental principles of government, Dr. Butler predicted that liberals of both parties might unite to form a Liberal Third Party. "There is no reason why we should be governed forever by Main Streets and Babbitts," thundered Dr. Butler...
...great Victorian novelist, and for those who are willing to lay aside their prejudice and be convinced, by a rational and quiet style, of her greatness. As Miss Haldane says in the last chapter, there is not one of the great Victorians who has suffered more from neglect since the war; the novels have not the satire of Thackeray's stories of London society, nor the luridness of Dickens tales of the slums; there is nothing but an unwavering view of the human heart, and a pervading sense of the law that we reap what...