Word: neglectment
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...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...
...untrained orators into the forum, since the will of many crystallized into laws and oratory is a supreme force to shape the crystals. An unreasoning and ultra-conservative distrust of any ability in any to find or to teach any adequate system of oratory is another reason for the neglect of our colleges to teach oratory. Assuming that the old inability is still upon us, colleges that forty years ago miserably failed to teach oratory still cry out, "We care not. Let a man pick up his oratory. Go and be like Edward Everett and Wendell Phillips...
...older one. But we are forced to do so by the statement in Mr. Lowell's address, which, if we rightly read it asserts that there were no public schools till several years after Harvard was founded. We think we have cause to comment, also, upon the neglect in all the addresses to refer to this earlier and, perhaps, not less important institution. - Latin School Register...
...trouble abated. It is this thoughtlessness, and only thoughtlessness, without question, which causes all the trouble. A little more thought and a little less selfishness will result in far more satisfactory results to all. But because this subject is hackneyed no man has a right in common justice to neglect the matter...