Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the beginning, it has always been the most chronic of all the difficulties in conducting tutorial successfully in the larger fields. By permitting the student to count sophomore tutorial as a course, instead of asking him to add it to a four course program, it is hoped to avoid embarrassments of this sort...
...members of the Faculty have seen that other pasture closely, and remember very well what it contains besides grass? Far from being cavalier toward the needs of the student the present experiment is an honest and conscientious attempt to satisfy those needs more fully and at the same time avoid some very real difficulties? Some of us perhaps recall too vividly the almost insoluble problems that arose in the past insoluble problems that arose in the past in trying to make group tutorial effective; and we shall need a little time to feel the disadvantages of the present experiment...
...superstition that makes Lloyd Jordan avoid black cats. "I don't like cats anyway," he explains. In fact Lloyd Jordan claims to be entirely free of superstitions. "Even if I wanted to wear a rabbit's foot, my dog woudn't let me," notes the football coach...
...gave the foreign language departments power to review and revise their elementary courses. New elementary courses may be provided to avoid duplicating work already done by a student in secondary school...
Last week, after a one-man campaign waged by M.P. Sydney Francis Markham (author of a treatise on weather called Climate and the Energy of Nations), temperatures in the House were reduced to 66°. To avoid chilly drafts, engineers will henceforth release extra-warm air into the empty lobbies whenever the chamber's doors are flung open at voting time. Beamed Climatologist Markham: "We are . . . approximating our aim-warm feet and cool heads...