Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Student Council datebook has been placed in charge of J. J. Storrow, Jr., '15, Dunster 46. To avoid conflicts, all dates for affairs of University interest should be made with his advice. The datebook has been kept for some years under the direction of the Student Council to provide a convenient and efficient method for arranging University entertainments, meetings...
...third remedy is a naval and military domination of the non-Christian world by the Christians. All these, however, Mr. Mott declares to be impossible. Even the additional proposal for the spread of education increases the difficulties. It is Mr. Mott's firm conviction that the only way to avoid the rising dangers is to change the disposition of man's inner self, to present to the non-Christians the purest possible form of Christianity...
...card signed and handed in by Saturday of this week there will be a great deal of trouble on Monday, February ninth. In view of the rush that always happens in the fall when the same process is being carried out, let us attend to it in time to avoid trouble...
...chief aims of the present elective system, as I understand it, is to require every student to concentrate in some field and avoid the dissipation of energy in the elementary study of a large number of unrelated subjects. Concentration necessitates the performance of a certain amount of advanced work, which is of greater advantage in developing mental power than a much larger amount of elementary work, which often consists merely in the acquisition of information, and does not necessitate any connected thought or analysis. It would seem, therefore, that the elective system were a success in forcing students...
...some sort of reputation and are receiving notice accordingly. The latest discussion is in the current Outlook and is a substantiated opinion that colleges are giving valuable business training. This is scarcely in accord with Mr. Bok, who stated in the same magazine last summer that good business men avoid college graduates until they have had time to have foolish ideals and ideas knocked from their heads. And this article does not blame the college for the fools that sometimes graduate from it. Mr. Draper, the author of the recent article, has taken the trouble to get actual facts from...