Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sentiments expressed in the editorial Tuesday entitled "Synthetic Sustenance," show what most certainly should be termed either oversight or ignorance--Heaven forfend the latter--on the part of some members of the Editorial Board. Surely, when it is suggested that a restaurant be inaugurated by the Harvard Dining Association at which tabloid foods shall be dispensed, something out of the distant, or less distant past has been forgotten. Why start a new restaurant? The dining Halls have always favored us with considerable food, the construction of which should meet, with the approval of the most fastidious synthesist; and examples...
...Haughton '99, who has general oversight of the Camp Devens team, when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter, had little to say about his eleven...
...elaborate and rhetorical throughout. The editorials, which counsel calmness and independent reflection together with earnest preparation for all eventualities, are sound in substance, but here and there awkward in exposition. The reviewer is not sure whether the cleft infinitive ("to merely talk") is to be regarded as an oversight or as a declaration of independence...
...suggestion is that writers hereafter give the addresses of such places. This might be needless for such well-known resorts as the "Midnight Frolio" and "Castles in the Air," but when Mr. La Farge was introducing a new one to Harvard men, he should have given the location. The oversight will be pardoned this time, but Mr. La Farge might have saved his readers the trouble of making inquiries or looking through a directory on their next trip to New York...
...most important new administrative body is the university board of health, which is to have general oversight over sanitary conditions about the university and over the personal health and health conditions of all students in the university. Dr. James C. Greenway, Yale '00, has been appointed university health officer. The board of health is composed of the deans of the college, the scientific school and the school of medicine, the professor of public health in the school of medicine and the professor of bacteriology and hygiene in the scientific school, the treasurer of the university the director of the gymnasium...