Word: neglectment
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Teachers have always recognized this fact . . . Today, due to our compulsory school laws, we are required to keep these chil dren in school until they are 17 or 18 years old. The teacher, in her effort to cope with these uneducable students, must of necessity neglect the brighter ones . . . The British are far more practical . . . They guarantee every child an elementary education, but at the end of this period they separate the sheep from the goats. The brighter students are sent on to secondary schools; the duller ones are sent to trade schools...
...this polyglot of eight million persons, the air is dirty, the traffic cramped, the public transportation inadequate, the slums growing, and the budget falling out of balance. These problems are not peculiar to New York. They are rooted in the very bigness of cities, and the inevitable neglect that comes of growing too fast. Without considering this, many people, vocal in the present campaign, are obsessed with a LaGuardia complex. Pointing to the administration of the great Fiorello, they say that one man, if he is dynamic enough and independent enough of political influence, can solve these problems. They forget...
Three weeks of steadily splendid weather in western Massachusetts had degenerated into full drought conditions, and the Authorities were worried. Not only would arid reservoirs and careless campers soon produce uncontrollable forest fires, but meanwhile, such communities as North Adams and Sheffield were having to neglect drinking, bathing and other amenities...
Once a student gets enrolled, he finds it hard to drop out. If he does he will receive such sales letters from teachers as "It's a shame for anyone with your natural ability to neglect it . . ." or "The studio cannot understand why your course is not finished and the conclusion is not very flattering to me." One of Murray's most flamboyant sales ideas is the "life membership," available for a minimum of $8,000, which entitles the buyer to a string of 1,000 lessons plus 24 hours a year thereafter until death. These, the prospective...
Impartially stamped on cocktail glasses and diplomas, Veritas is the familiar emblem of Harvard College. But acceptance of this Latin noun came only after a haphazard beginning and two centuries of neglect and controversy...