Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reminding me of the unpaid balance of fifty dollars. This bill I gave to Mr. Coolidge, asking him to see that it was paid by the boat club, and it was accordingly paid as he states. Whatever embarassment was thus caused to the boat club was occasioned by my neglect and of their embarassment, I shall consider it my only to relieve the boat club by reimbursing it for the amount so expended...
...involved, it cannot be said that the play to meet the curving ball is more difficult than the play to meet the, varying pitch and break of well-bowled balls at cricket. In base-ball curves there is no room for chance to come in; at least we may neglect such slight differences as may arise from local peculiarities of atmospheric density. It would be perhaps worth inquiring how far the effectiveness of a pitcher's curving would be affected by the barometric pressure. Imagine the captain of a base-ball team warning the nine before play began that they...
...Princetonian severely critises the management of the freshman nine for its neglect in arranging games for the team...
...sharp censure. When the Yale delegates came here about two weeks ago to ask for a reconsideration of the decision of the first meeting of the freshman class, they were promised that the subject would be brought up a second time. The freshmen are guilty of a great neglect of duty in not calling a mass meeting before this, and the best thing they can do now is to call a meeting immediately, discuss the question fully, and make the decision final...
...aspirants for literary honors; "The legacy which we leave to our collegiate posterity, is our advice that they enjoy those exquisite pleasures which literary seclusion affords, but that they do not strive to communicate them to others." The last words are almost pathetic in their tone. "To obscurity and neglect, then, we commit the "Lyceum." In obscurity and neglect it will find honorable company, and it may be satisfied with this lot, which, though it waits the most inferior, is the fate of the most learned productions. Where are the works of Chaldean, of Persian and of Egyptian wisdom? Ages...