Word: overlooks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Potter '14, first scholar of the Senior class urged the freshmen not to overlook scholarship as one of the great activities. Let not hard work discourage, for everything calls for hard work. The belief that scholarship necessitates a hermit's life is a delusion and absolutely discredited. To declare, as some do that study is uninspiring is to hold in contempt the greatest things that men have ever said or thought or done...
When Mr. Sanger blew off "Steam," the result was a creditable poem in Kiplingian vein. One or two infelicities of phrase fail to destroy our pleasure in verse where sense and music are happily combined. And we can overlook the exigencies of internal rime...
...Germany" is pleasing, if not important; Mr. Pichel's "The Quake in Unbelief" has life enough to make up for its crudeness; Mr. Wright's "Parsifal," in terza rima with one verse left unrhymed, is so much larger and more imaginative than most undergraduate poetry that one may hopefully overlook its faults. Many readers will find Mr. Seldes's discussion of college democracy the most remunerative article in the number, sufficient in itself to make the magazine worth buying...
...must all commentators scrupulously overlook the glaring fact that undergraduates from public schools are intellectually a picked lot, and that undergraduates from private schools have been subject to no selective process whatever? A small proportion of grammar school boys go on to high school. A majority of those who take this step are better equipped intellectually than those who do not. Again, among high school graduates, only a fraction (large or small) go on to college. Here too the little band that progresses includes the intellectually foremost. The result is that those high school graduates who get John Harvard...
...interests of Yale and Harvard. President Hadley's insistence on the points of fundamental unity--the intellectual rivalry which shows itself among the graduates in varied walks of life, the influence of the traditions which both uphold--reveals the very matter which the undergraduates are most likely to overlook. The value of the Harvard lectureship which he mentions so enthusiastically makes us wish that some Yale alumnus would present a sum of money to Harvard to allow us to entertain regularly a Yale professor. Certain it is that the bonds of union between the two universities which the spirit...