Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter published elsewhere in this column, feels that the "one primary issue" in connection with inter-House eating is the "bearing of eating in the House upon the creation of a corporate personality in the House." He fears that the system right be used by narrow groups "to avoid eating in the House by spending the weekly quota upon guests." The desirability of House corporate personality can be much exaggerated; yet if the fears expressed are well-founded, they constitute a just objection to the plan...
...issue to which you allude casually among your list of objections and one of whose importance it is hard to convince those who criticize the present arrangement. This important point is the bearing of eating in the House upon the creation of a corporate personality in the House (to avoid the much criticized phrase "House spirit...
...much the entertainment of guests which creates the problem as the use of the system to avoid eating in the House by spending the weekly quota upon guests. It is unnecessary to dilate upon this point; to imagine for instance, groups of men who would circulate from House to House as a narrow eating club, because one's imaginings are perhaps worse than the reality. Personally I think that the eating of a certain number of meals in the House is essential, though on the other hand, if the House exercises no other appeal, compulsory meals of themselves will...
...past been employed by the Records Office as examination proctors, will be deprived of this work as a result of a new policy which has just been inaugurated, requiring course instructors to proctor their own examinations. The step was taken as an economy measure in order to avoid the reduction of salaries in the Records Office...
...often led by an inexperienced man, almost invariably ploughs laboriously and ineffectually in a circular direction through a morass of conflicting, ill-considered, irrelevant opinions. The failure of section meetings need, however, be no criterion of the probable success of class discussions; it does stand as a warning. To avoid fruitless expression of opinion on everything from communism to room rents in the Houses, the topic for discussion should be strictly defined. It should if possible be based on the study of an assigned text, short enough to be thoroughly considered before the class meeting...