Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parents principally of debutantes they seem interested only in the ultimate tensile strength of the bond between body and soul in their daughters. The appeals so far advanced by Harvard authorities interested in preventing students in the two lower classes from forming entangling alliances have met with a rude neglect. In spite of the theory that college men should he allowed to produce their own salvation without supervision from above, a certain protection should still be allowed the younger of them from allurement that no longer tempts burnt children in the upper classes, Humanitarianism, even if unsupported by a common...
...student's) individuality is respected, but he is gently guided along the path of self-development and well being. Here it is sink or swim, with only an overworked 'baby dean' as a straw to the drowning man. I, for one, prefer this robust if sometimes un-salutary neglect...
...already many colleges designed to suit this taste. Harvard almost alone has placed its full reliance on the undirected initiative and judgment of the individual student. Because it believes that therein has lain Harvard's unique glory, the CRIMSON joins Professor Morison in preferring the present system of robust neglect to any alternative plan of gentle guidance...
...ignores the fact that some bodies of undergraduates are demonstrably activated by a desire for study and plunges headlong into an explanation of its impossibility. He is convinced that the exclusive purpose of an education for nine out of ten undergraduates is to prepare them for business. This absolute neglect of the value of study for its own sake and for the appreciation of human knowledge attendant on it hardly needs comment. Its glaring fallacy will be too familiar to anyone acquainted with the already large literature inspired by the spiritless existence of the retired business...
...novelty would seem to be the production of an athletic show in which the heroine did not invade the locker room in order to embrace the all-American fullback. Here is something worth considering, but it is to be feared that the author of so many Vanities will never neglect a good dressing room scene. A real contribution is in sight, on the other hand, if he succeeds in making his athletes dance through their formations without first shouting a series of numbers at them or calling a huddle in the middle of the stage. Coaches will do well...