Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of record that more men take tennis as a form of exercise to keep fit than any other sport in the University. The encouragement of a sport that men can keep up long after they leave college is something the University ought not to overlook. The indoor courts would solve this problem. PAUL JACKSON...
...Harvard's chances today. I recognize that Harvard has a better record for the season; that Harvard has shown a more consistent and better developed offense than Yale; that Yale displayed noticeable weaknesses against Princeton both in generalship, team play and individual performance. On the other hand I cannot overlook the fact that, in the Princeton game, Yale got a great deal of bad football out of her system and learned lessons which will not permit of the repetition of these errors in her final game of the season; that the individuals including substitutes who will face Harvard today...
Although most of the undergraduates are not as eager to violate these rules (especially the last) as the author of College Life would have us believe, they never take any of them seriously, and therefore overlook, the one which is really practical--namely, that about music and noise after ten o'clock. If anyone is moved by the impulse to sing, play the piano, or practice on the saxophone at eleven or twelve o'clock, does he think of the commandment posted in the corridor, or of his next-door neighbor? He does not. If he resides in the Freshman...
Those who advocated such action on the grounds that Socialists admitted to the bar are "doubly dangerous for being learned in the law" apparently overlook the fact that the law, in its emphasis on constitutionality and precedent, tends above all to make its students more conservative than when they entered upon their legal course. But whether law makes its followers radical or reactionary is beside the point. The very idea of introducing a measure so repressive as that proposed by the New York law teachers is more un-American than any act countenanced by the Socialist party. The motives...
...under present conditions the service is of necessity open chiefly to the wealthy, who alone can afford to accept its burdens. At present diplomacy does not offer an over-attractive career, to college graduates and others (no matter what their qualifications), unless they possess independent resources. Even if we overlook its unfairness, such a state of affairs certainly does not conduce to efficiency. The diplomatic service is of constantly increasing importance to the country. Adequate compensation is the first step toward securing competent representatives; and in this direction we should not be influenced by false ideas of "economy...