Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interest. But however beneficial these exclusively student organizations may be, it will be of great advantage to have a number of classes in which men can be specially trained in those elements of good public speaking which in the ardor of their club debates they are most inclined to neglect...
This liberty and liberality impose on you a very definite responsibility, and it is for you to make the best possible use of the opportunities offered to you. The greatest disappointment of all professors is because of the neglect so often shown by the students. The measure of a good teacher is the amount of interest in themselves which he can implant in his scholars...
...yearly exercises in Appleton Chapel are again begun. It has not been Harvard's practice to make attendance at religious services compulsory, but it can not be denied that her system is productive of good results. There is, however, one objection to it,- that it allows an unfortunate neglect of opportunity. Students are too likely to forget that the visiting preachers to the University are chosen from among the most noted throughout the country. To hear them from day to day, and to meet them in the friendly way which is here possible, is a privilege which all must forfeit...
...student. There runs through all the comment on Harvard's apparent devotion to things of little real moment, a harsh note of accusation. The suggestion is that at Harvard the high ideals which properly belong to advanced education are lost sight of. On whom the responsibility for this fancied neglect of the ideal rests, is not generally understood; but instructors, as well as students, are implicated in the charge. The absurdity of this would be realized at once by one who knew anything of Harvard. There could hardly be a body of men who would more consistently set before...
...sophomore nine did not go to Southboro yesterday to play the game arranged with St. Marks, owing to a neglect to comply with the rule which requires a class nine to petition the Faculty for permission to leave Cambridge on any day but Saturday. The nine was instead given some lively practice in fielding and batting...