Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...last number of the Advocate the Freshmen were most justly censured for neglect of their crew...
...gone so far as to take them out; how many articles that were to have appeared in Advocate or Magenta have never even seen the light of our own rooms! So it is; but let us not despair, even though a condition in Physics is the price of our neglect, for have we not all gained something more, perhaps something better, though we are conscious of it only when the remembrance of some mood or some train of thought of a year ago contrasts it with our present position? If we have not gained much positive knowledge, we have...
...future it will be well for undergraduates to uncover themselves when about to address the watchman. We have reason to believe that neglect to do this, twice repeated, will be construed into "systematic insult of a college officer...
...Yale, besides the offer of a special course for post-graduates." Our limited space prevents our copying half so much as we should like, but we cannot help quoting two of the things which, according to the author, a catalogue should be expected not to do. "It should not neglect to distinguish between resident and non-resident professors, and between professors and mere lecturers. A college may engage a lecturer, residing at a distance, to give 'a course' of five or six lectures on chemistry, geology, or what not, and then put his name in the list of instructors. Such...
...pertinent question to ask, wherein have such studies any superiority over writing as a means of discipline. Moreover, it is a recognized fact that the men most ready to write are those who are also most ready to study. In this case there need be no fear of their neglecting their tasks in order to attend to the duty of writing, - a duty that can scarcely be called more pleasurable. If those, however, are induced to write, whose custom it is not to study, save to avoid warnings and conditions, there certainly need be no fear lest these shall neglect...