Word: neglectment
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...Educators will generally agree that there should be more university men in government work. Legislation no less than administration needs men of scientific training. Why, then, should educators and educational institutions neglect the one means of accomplishing what they all desire...
...assertion that the abolition of the classics requirement at New Haven will "rock the firm foundation of classical culture in secondary schools" is fine hyperbole. That foundation has long since lost any, Gibraltar-like quality. It is unlikely, on the other hand, that the classics are doomed to complete neglect at any early date...
...today's sport events. I mean H.T.P. of the Transcript. He said today was the H-T-P regatta and wouldn't I do something about it. Well, he's an old Harvard man. Draw your own conclusions. I told varsity and the 150-pound race. I couldn't neglect Princeton altogether. I give the Freshman race to the Tiger. To Tech goes the second varsity race...
When the U. S. took Porto Rico from Spain in 1898 and made it an adjunct of the War Department, the island's population was suffering from four degrading centuries of misrule, neglect and exploitation. Quick crude efforts by hack administrators to '"Americanize" these people, part Spanish, part Negro, produced more resentment than results. In less than two years, however, Governor Roosevelt has done more to win their confidence than others in the last 20 years. He learned Spanish. He traveled over the islands. He set up relief stations, went to the U. S. to collect funds, to fight Porto...
...system. With a heavier burden to maintain, one can understand its carefulness in charging rentals equal to the needs. But the fact remains, that students are the present losers, which means that the University, as it is now conceived, will suffer in the end. The Administration cannot afford to neglect this situation, or to allow financial barriers to block entrance to the Houses. To do so would be to defeat, from the start, the aim of the House Plan toward the establishment of cross-sections...