Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan discussed at the meeting would provide the Board of Freshman Advisors with a number of upperclass concentrators to supplement the regular counseling program. Such student participation, it was felt, would help freshmen avoid needless errors in selecting their courses. "Who can tell a person better about a course than one who has taken it?" Hugh Blair-Smith '58, co-chairman of the Adams concentrators said...
...good times. One of diminutive (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) Dancer Escudero's closest barroom buddies was the late, bibulous portrayer of Montmartre, Maurice Utrillo. Was Utrillo ever sober? Snorted Escudero: "Ah, poor Maurice! When not in his cups he would fall down, so he sought to avoid sobriety at all costs!" Is Escudero's pal, Painter Salvador Dali (on hand at the Plaza opening with his antenna mustache attuned to the wild Spanish rhythms), a fraudulent art theorist? With a big wink Escudero spoke seriously: "Since nobody knows what is true, Salvador's theory that...
...Santa Maria to excavate further. Entering through a shaft bored in the ground, he and his colleagues penetrated an elaborate catacomb, but found that all loose objects of value had disappeared. Fact was that the catacomb had been discovered 20 years before, and covered quietly by the landowners to avoid an official veto on building over...
While most companies do all they can to help with recreational and cultural projects, management takes pains to avoid dominating local governments or creating a feeling of passive dependence on company paternalism. When Shell built a new $75 million refinery in little Anacortes, Wash, last year, employees were advised to ''be helpful but go slow" in civic activities. A company executive explained. "We were very careful not to lead residents to believe we were going to be the great white father." Said Editor Wallie Funk of the Anacortes American Bulletin: "Only a few of us suffered any Shell...
...intelligent student, however, who may for some particularly compelling reason wish to avoid writing a thesis, should not be excluded from honors--if he can stay within its purpose. If every student receiving Cum Laude in General Studies were to do some intensive and creative project in his senior year, even a project outside his field of concentration, the program would be entirely acceptable...