Word: remiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hardly sufficient to acquaint the average college listener with the bewildering vibrations of the political shuttle-cock as it bounces from farm relief to prohibition, from water power control to oil scandals. In a democracy, an educated man ought also to be an educated governor, and a college is remiss in a full performance of duty if it fails to equip its graduates with a working knowledge of public affairs. College courses, under the necessity of remaining non-partisan and more or less theoretical, cannot materially further this type of education. Recent political club revivals lack sufficient staying power...
...University. In the first place, the committee will take upon itself the responsibility of properly receiving and welcoming the teams sent from the schools which play against the Freshman teams in any field or department of athletics. The student council has long felt that the College has been rather remiss in this capacity and that in past it has neglected to extend to visiting preparatory schools the courtesy which is their...
...springy of step, hearty and good natured in spite of being a grizzled veteran past 60. He was personally attractive, impulsive, brave and sure of himself. The Court found him guilty of "vacillation, dilatoriness and lack of enterprise," and declared that he had been slow in obeying orders, remiss in securing naval intelligence, had blundered tactically in the battle of Santiago, and had various minor faults. The Court however recommended no action be taken, and indeed the time had expired in which a court martial could be held. Shortly after the trial he was retired on reaching the age limit...
...thing which its editors want to accomplish, best, when they turn its attention to what they know the most about--Harvard. The Faculty might profitably appoint a Committee to investigate the theory that the reason Harvard is just now in the doldrums, is because the Lampoon has been remiss of late in making run of obvious absurdities in our university life...
...upper class advisor for Freshmen has proved himself indeed remiss when such feeble and ill thought-out epistics are allowed to issue from the close about the riverbank. Skoal to tradition! Fie upon reform! S. H. ORDWAY JR. 1L. November...