Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After two years of neglect the Freshman Debating Club is being revived. The first unofficial meeting is to be held in the Standish Common Room on March 22 at 6.45 o'clock. The club will officially start its season in the Smith Hall Common Room after the Yale Freshman debate which is on March 26 when T. W. Lorenzen '28, president of the University Club, will address the meeting...
...enthusiasm of a tutor for his own field, a student may be led into specialization before he has gained the background that work in fields entirely unrelated should give. This specialization may take two forms: emphasis upon the the courses and tutorial work in one field to the neglect of courses outside this field taken either for distribution or as free electives, or too great concentration in one field in the student's choice of his free electives. The best safeguard against this danger lies in having as tutors men who are of sufficiently broad views and interests to prevent...
...report of the Harvard Board of Overseers on the reading periods before comprehensive examinations states that "it is expected... that for the first few years there will be an increased number of failures among the students who are disposed to neglect their studies". This illustrates the difference between the educational policies of Harvard and Princeton whose platforms are essentially the same but whose execution of them differs. For in the absence of an American tradition for the form of education that they are striving for Princeton alters gradually making precedent as she goes, Harvard changes abruptly...
...students there will be risks that always go with opportunity and responsibility. Some will be lost who might conceivably be compelled to straggle along. Some will look upon the reading period as a holiday; others will regard it as a cramming period in which to make good earlier neglect. But the great majority will welcome "time for consecutive reading and for other large tasks, free from interruption by a schedule that breaks up" their "work into small unrelated units." In short, they will welcome a greater freedom because it will permit and demand greater self-reliance...
...theory, when 50 or 500 men and women rush through the night and hang a man or woman, they all?50 or 500?become murderers or accessories to murder. But in practice, in the South, lynchers have not been judged guilty of anything, because Southern governments habitually neglect to locate them. Last week, however, the most important news from Georgia was that one Gaines Lastinger had been sentenced to life imprisonment. He is the twelfth of a midsummer's night mob of lynchers to be convicted by Georgia...