Word: shirked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wish to shirk any responsibility, or to get rid of any duty belonging to this office. We have never sought this position, and do not now seek or desire it. We accepted it simply from a sense of duty and a willingness to help on the interests of our old club We have always been ready to give you our advice, whenever asked, and to assist you in every way within our power. We regret that our efforts have not been better appreciated, or received more in the spirit in which as we consider, they should have been...
...other members of the class for men to delay their sittings until so late in the year. The work of the chairman of the photograph committee is irksome enough in any case, even when each member of the class does his part willingly; and when men shirk their share of the work and make it necessary for the chairman to continually remind them of their delinquency - a duty which is neither easy nor pleasant - their neglect must be due either to gross carelessness or to inexcusable selfishness...
...American methods of instruction. The writer of the article on German student life in the last number of the Crimson, we fear, delivers a true commentary on American students, when he says that there is observable, in both American and German students, one common quality-"a remarkable tendency to shirk work," or at least, to postpone work until the final examination is at hand. This condition of things is plainly to be laid to the charge of the present examination system. The system is a good one if its results are good ; it is to be judged by its results...
...never must shirk...
That their duties they'd frequently shirk...