Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made to provide adequate instruction for the Freshman class. The immediate change, the development of the advisory system, is the smallest and least important item of this development. It is quite possible, however, that a greater and more expert personal interest in individual first year men will help to avoid many of the usual scholastic pitfalls that threaten at the beginning of the college career. But to accomplish any substantial reform, the entire system of instruction of the first year must be improved. When this is done, many of the glaring difficulties of the preparatory-college transition will be removed...
...after all, a few discrepancies like these do not counteract the worth of the feature picture, and besides a little careful timing will avoid the whole difficulty...
...12th. Voigt was two up. Here Voigt began to slip. He drove out of bounds and lost the 15th. At the Railway Hole he played into Principal's Nose, famed bunker. Suddenly Jones found his putting touch. Needing a long putt for a half at the 17th to avoid going home one down, he sank it. It was his most important shot of the day. Voigt was weak climbing out of the Valley of Sin (swale in front of the 18th green) and Jones won this hole and the match...
Unless a college draws from a very limited circle of preparatory schools or limits its enrollment to the notably superior student, several subject fields will need to avoid rigidity in the arrangement of courses for first-year students. The point may be illustrated by reference to the mooted question of linguistics in the curriculum of the secondary school. By nature and profession I am disposed to maintain the educative values in this branch of study although I recognize that there is a certain type mind which is not so constituted as to profit largely by these values...
...Attack. With no shots fired and distances immense, the engagement of the "backbone" by cruisers and destroyer was unimpressive, inconclusive. Then out of nowhere in the heavens over the battle fleet, aiming at a point 300 yards abeam the Salt Lake City (to avoid possibility of a crash), one fighting plane after another shot screaming down in power dives of attack, at speeds (250 m. p. h. and more) impossible to meet with defensive gunfire. These were followed by the "smokers," larger planes flying low to lay five-mile banks of white obscurity behind which, from nowhere on the battle...