Word: neglectment
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...John Harvard anniversary celebration, which has been so successfully carried out during the past week, is an example of the non-essentials of college experience, which are nevertheless valuable accessories. The occasion was one worthy of commemoration, but neglect to observe it might have passed by un-noticed. The very spirit in which it was received, however, proves that our lack of old traditions is not due to anything fundamentally opposed to them in the nature of Harvard undergraduates. We must explain it by the fact that a revolt against provincial customs has gone too far, and that in ridiculing...
...Rutnam appeared in the picturesque native garb of his country, then gave a discussion of the conditions in which India is placed at the present time through the neglect and oppression of the English government...
...regrets which Seniors express on leaving College is at their neglect of their opportunities for seeing places and institutions which others come far to visit. By this we do not refer merely to places of historical or literary interest in the neighborhood of Boston. There are many such excursions which would occupy a free afternoon or holiday and which would be well worth the time devoted to them. But there are in our very midst places whose existence is scarcely known except to specialization or advanced students. We refer to the museums...
...choice of such men that a head coach has one of his best opportunities to help the team, for it is on them that the players must, depend for the individual instruction which is so important at the beginning. The squad seems to be reasonably strong, but unpardonable neglect of scholastic responsibilities will deprive it of several valuable...
...remarkable that in a college where modern literatures are so eagerly studied, so little attention should be paid to those of Greece and Rome. This neglect is partly due to the worthless utilitarian protest that we should study only things which we can sensibly use in our life, and partly because of the undergraduate belief that in Harvard the study of the classics is not made worth while...