Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast majority of college men are dissatisfied with the present situation and that at least a good majority drink, according to their own confession, there will be cries against washing dirty linen in public, In the final, honest analysis, however, there seems to be no possible way to avoid the conclusion that prohibition in its present form is a dismal failure, and that serious effort should be made to do away with the heritage of hypocrisy left the undergraduate by his parents and the Anti-saloon League...
...other Chicago buildings, the Rand Tower in Minneapolis and the Racine (Wis.) County Courthouse. Said the jury of awards: ". . . They are evolving a treatment of the skyscraper that makes the most of the inherent structural necessities of the building. . . . They make the most of great simple masses, and avoid the finicky decoration that distracts from the beauty possibilities of sheer structural necessity." Art Critic Royal Cortissoz describes their work as "vertiginous verticality...
After the first influx of students has paced over this ground, the path remains in such a succulent and oozy condition that only the most courageous dare traverse it. Professorial dignity is scattered to the winds when the unfortunate faculty members who teach in Harvard Hall try to avoid the mud of one path by navigating the brook let leading towards University Hall...
Bushnell stressed the fact that "twelve men for woman, God help us are still twelve human beings who react to honesty and chicanery just as we all do. In testifying before them, avoid the 'smart-aleck' attitude, the dogged attitude, and nervous hesitancy. Keep your temper. A clever cross-examiner will draw you out, emphasize your faults, and so discredit your testimony in the eyes of the jury. But the policeman armed with the truth has a 90 per cent advantage over any crooked lawyer...
...nothing the appointment of outstanding men as visiting lecturers to the University one can not avoid a feeling of regret that more of these teachers are not to give regular undergraduate courses within the College curriculum. The value to undergraduates of lectureships as opposed to visiting professorships is not to be compared. In the routine of regular college work the average undergraduate has little time for serious attention to outside lectures. Distinguished scholars are swallowed up in the round of college life. Many men today miss the opportunity to sit under these scholars. Visiting professorships would not only mean reaching...