Word: remiss
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...PURITANISM runs deep at Harvard. The University, we are reminded often, was first founded as a training school for young ministers. Here they would come to study liturgy and oratory, learning how to guide souls in righteousness and lead back the heretic and the remiss. Here, shivering in spare wood-paneled dorms and dining rooms, they would combat the freezing snow and wind outside with the fires of religious devotion they hoped to kindle...
...This rally is part of the education process," Graham said later. "We have to convince students that it is in their interest to be involved. I'd be remiss in my job if I didn't try to make people aware of the fact that we are all going down together," Graham added...
...Seidman were unaware of these charges, or if she knew of them but failed to ask Burchett about them, she was remiss as a newspaperwoman. If she thought them not important enough to ask about, she was remiss as a decent human being. If she did ask, but spared us what Burchett told her, then she was not being truthful with her readers...
Longsworth said that the sold stock, worth about $250,000, would be reinvested in the fall, once adequate guidelines have been drawn up for stock investments. "We have been very remiss in not having a policy for investing stocks," he added...
...January letter to Alberta Arthurs, acting dean of freshmen, the Munch family, and Wacker, Joseph D. Blair '74, senior advisor to freshmen, concluded that the doctor on duty December 17 was "remiss in his duties" and had "made a hasty diagnosis of her illness...