Word: neglectment
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...attention at dormitory rooms are answered. Immediate investigation of an appeal for medical assistance is an essential of protection. If pressure of other duties prevents prompt personal attention from the Medical Adviser, it is an admission that the staff is insufficient that no assistant can be assigned a case. Neglect or improper treatment of disease in its early stages often results in needless hardship to the individual and danger to many when a case of contagion occurs...
...sterility of American colleges in the production of speakers of rare capacity can be attributed in part at least to the insignificant place of debating in undergraduate life. The neglect of forensics may be caused by the fact that the universities in this country are not traditionally, as they are in England, training grounds for the nation's statesmen. Although American universities cannot be made replicas of the English in this respect, there are other means of inciting brilliant men to rescue college debating from the nadir into which it has fallen...
...University is unwise in allowing any important publicity to be issued except through the regular channels. To say that the Observatory is partial in its favors to the press is, perhaps, giving the officials in charge too little of the virtue of generosity. But the neglect to treat all of the members of the press equally, has seemed to be deliberate; if that is so, it should be remedied. If the neglect of accredited members of the metropolitan journalistic family has been an oversight, that, too, may be remedied by using the official publicity department of the University...
...Harding and Mr. Coolidge, did not support the scientific work under his charge, and there seems to be no evidence since he has climbed to the presidency that he realizes the dependence of our civilization on scientific work and its applications." Evidence of Engineer Hoover's neglect of Science as outlined in the article: as Secretary of Commerce he appointed a commission on highway safety, paid no further attention to the members, made them pay their own expenses "though he managed to have it called in the extensive newspaper publicity The Hoover Commission." Though every other recent President...
...blue shirt of the thrifty American worker is perhaps the surest bulwark against the red shirt of Communism. A more liberal outlook on the part of the government toward social problems, backed by salutary neglect of Communist bugaboo, would tend to weaken the hold of revolutionary agitators America's industrial centers...