Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...degree determined by a man's field of concentration is necessary to avoid the existing confusion of terms. Coupled with this, perhaps, should come an extension of the Ancient Authors requirements which already play important roles in several fields. These examinations, although often irritating, justify to some extent the claim that Harvard offers a liberal and inclusive education...
Rightly, and inevitably, tutors will decide on their own methods of instruction, but they ought always to be guided by the axiomatic principles of the tutorial function. Among these unwritten laws the first would be to avoid being primarily a convenient encyclopedia of useful information. And the second would be like unto it: to give the student some insight into the problems of his field and to inspire him to study them intelligently for himself...
...somewhat Utopian ideal could, of course, never be fully consummated in the nature of things. A minority of lecturers would continue to be talking text-books. A minority of students would take advantage of the new system to cut, just as they take advantage of the present system to avoid supplementary reading and depend solely on the disconnected facts they glean from lectures. In both cases, however, they would suffer the same penalty as at present --the former by lecturing to empty seats, the latter by premature ejection from the realms of higher education. The true understanding of a subject...
...Worried About Your Personality? "All of us can avoid boring and offending others needlessly. We can see to it that we are well-groomed and cleanly...
...automobile crash near her husband's Roslyn, L. I., estate caused when her chauffeur swerved to avoid another car, Mrs. Clarence H- Mackay, the former Anna Case, opera singer, was cut on the face and hand, severely bruised...