Word: neglectment
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...male children, and the young boy was left pretty much to himself except when he had done wrong. But he was not a complaining child, and as he looks back, there is a melancholy charm, about his childhood that is attractive. And what he seems to have suffered from neglect, he gained in independence and self-sufficiency. Then there were always the summer holidays at Barmouth, at John o'Groat's, or on the island of Jersey, where he climbed rocks and swam with such of his father's students as "Q" Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. On one occasion...
...hideous tortures in British jails. The campaign and circulation faded together when stiff-necked Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks proved that the hideous conditions in British jails consisted in the inability of Horatio Bottomley to obtain his Pommery 1906 and other special privileges. Six dull years of neglect and increasing poverty were followed by sickness, the application for an old-age pension (a bill that Horatio Bottomley M.P. helped sponsor) and the ultimate insult, the offer of ?1 a week from Telephone Jack...
...revealed that neglect of the whole unfortunate business has in addition caused a technical miscarriage of justice. Students who return the tags placed on their cars are summoned to court and fined, but the larger number who have been tagged as much as seven or eight times and do not report to the Station with them, have escaped punishment. Largely because of the difficulty in looking up plates in the Registrar's office and sifting out the excuses of owners who maintain that someone, since forgotten, borrowed the car the night it was tagged, police have been unable to send...
Left over from a time when course grades were, almost exclusively, the basis of the degree, the general honors award has become sharply out of harmony with the ideal and aims of the college. It places unfortunate stress on the grade-grubbing routine and permits neglect of tutorial work, the thesis, and the advantages of concentrated study in one field culminating in general examinations. Aside from its inadequacy within the College, there is marked inequity in granting the same cum laude on such different grounds of achievement. The degree should be a badge of something approaching maturity of outlook; nine...
...abortive Engineering School will be one of these. If, however, there is to be any major and fundamental alteration in the University, it will be, so far as can be told now, along the lines of those changes which the President of Chicago University has effected, and the neglect of which so aroused Flexner and his colleagues. While Harvard has been slowly moving away from the old arrangement of rigid, over-specialized, and generally unsatisfactory examinations, it has not yet completely escaped the toils of this ubiquitous abuse; one of the most weighty problems which the new President will have...