Word: neglects
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...suits their convenience," she continued, not minding my interruption, "to forsake their warm rooms and their cosy fires, they may sometimes be persuaded to grace a ball-room with their presence; but as for paying visits on ladies from whom they have received attention, they generally neglect them. If the truth be known, the entire social fabric is sustained by the votive offerings of the ladies...
...added now and then a lecture by the instructor. Which of these methods is the best I will not attempt to say. When the lectures are delivered by the instructor, the average students, in fact I may say all except a few of the most faithful, are apt to neglect the daily work, and simply to cram their knowledge just before the examinations. As to the second method, it is certain that the preparation and delivery of a lecture by a student does him great good; but whether his hearers get as much advantage from this as they would...
...taken the elective who had no great knowledge of the subject, but who expected, by diligent work, to succeed tolerably well; the examination was of such difficulty that most of them failed, and the result will be that during the second half-year they will either overwork or neglect their work, thinking that labor is of no avail...
...periodical, managed by men in college or still upon its borders, and chiefly supported by Harvard men, never entered their heads. It has turned out, however, that many undergraduates have hastily concluded that, because the Lampoon was endeavoring to attract attention outside of the college, it intended henceforth to neglect the college altogether; and the paper has consequently suffered from a certain degree of unpopularity. It is to be hoped that this will not persist, for the Lampoon is an effort unique in the history of American college journalism. It has been from the beginning an admirable exponent...
...eastern horizon; and somebody may be seen, Thiers-like, at the same hour, in a solitary garret, grinding, ever grinding. Somebody will have ambitious plans for taking honors in history, philosophy, or mathematics, and will, in three months, perhaps be forced to leave these historic shades "for neglect of regular college duties." Somebody, perhaps, announcing no elaborate plans to the world, will do solid, sustained, faithful work, and lead his class. Who are the men who are destined to fall into these various positions? Unlike the impatient novel-reader, we cannot satisfy our curiosity by glancing at the last...