Word: approached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parkway, crosses the Mt. Auburn Street artery. The collision which occurred there last evening was trifling, but it is only the long arm of coincidence that has as yet kept the crossing from being the scene of a really tragic accident. This possibility undergraduate drivers realize and they generally approach with some caution, a habit which the majority of passers, either through negligence or ignorance, never acquire...
...dangerous, and quite as much used, as that already marked one block farther down. Last evening's accident was, providentially, only a timely warning and not a tragic lesson, to the Cambridge authorities. The spot should be marked, and, until it is, students will do well to continue to approach it cautiously...
...have passed since its adoption in 1914 in which there has not been an extension of the System, or a modification in the fields where it already existed; and plans for further changes are constantly under consideration. Bearing this in mind, it is with a constructive attitude that we approach the problem, intent on tearing away nothing that exists, but eager to determine whether, as has been said of democracy, the cure for the evils around the tutorial system be not more tutorial system...
...extreme is a thing of the pas. "The course system as a method of college instruction masses men into an educational factory. Its only result can be an approach to a standardized product. Humanity cannot and ought no to be standardized. Every student in college presents a different combination of characteristics which distinguish him from his fellow-students. The individual student should be modeled on his own personality rather than on a common ideal...
...whenever it does rise to shine on this new rainbow arch, will be shattered by cold brick and cement. It will be made, alas, to walk on: not as a Freshman promenade but as a Business School thoroughfare. The Chinese element which has argued for a pagoda-like approach, the Indian students who have hoped for pontoons, and the Westerners who felt that they could get along without any bridge, will all be disappointed...