Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Catholic episcopacy. Excerpt: "The greatest malady of the modern age, the principal source of the evils we all deplore, is the lack of reflection. . . . There is only one remedy which I can propose. This is to invite tired souls to have recourse to spiritual exercises. . . . We must not neglect this supernatural breath which is life to many souls...
...Such an arrangement is quite admirable from the standpoint of abstract liberality, but is necessarily harmful in frequent instances where examinations are held early in the week, and one student has control for two days of several books important in the course. Probably this situation arises rather from the neglect of the individual instructors than from inefficiency in the Reading Room itself; but it should be remediable without relying on faulty memories or a shifting of books from the open shelves to the desk every time an examination is imminent...
Chemistry has become a broad field. On the one side physics and mathematics, on the other biology and physiology are embraced in the many ramifications of the science. It is important above all in a field where laboratory work occupies so great a proportion of attention, not to neglect the theoretic investigation of the allied sciences, lest concentrators in the Division become mere followers of cook book directions over a Bunsen burner...
...established theatrical activity has fortunately not had time to become extinct as is definitely indicated by the recurring undergraduate efforts to cause some sort of dramatic revival. But the impetus necessary to materialize these feelings must come before the fire is smothered in the obliterating blanket of opposition and neglect...
...intercollegiate football contests owe a good part of their present position to the notice which the press and radio have brought them, there is no doubt that the singularly different development of minor sports has been possible only through the salutary neglect which has left them to struggle along on their own feet...