Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...extend an informal welcome, supplementary to that of the Reception and the Senior advisers. So long as these ideals are maintained and the committee refrains from any attempt to do more than extend such a welcome, its work will be of inestimable value. We are sure that it will avoid bewildering the unacclimated Freshman with a surfeit of advice on what to and what...
...haphazard beginning. Few are the students, who, starting out with no definite plan of study in their mind and no inclination to form one, ever cease their academic meanderings in order to follow a rational scheme of mental training. As they begin, so they end, intellectual skirt-dancers. To avoid such lamentable wasters of educational opportunities, the system of concentration has been put into force. This afternoon, the founder of the scheme, President Lowell, will speak to the Freshmen on the "Choice of Electives," and will explain to the its purpose and possibilities. No one is better qualified than President...
...Instructions will be issued later concerning the details of the courses of training to be given. In order to avoid wasting time on subjects already familiar to the students, the training will begin where the second or third instructional year ends in the average course. In drawing up the schedule, the advice of the authorities of several institutions will be obtained as to the most profitable employment of the students...
...will be a performance of the Pl Eta spring play, "The Stymie," for the benefit of Union members. Special tickets will be issued from the Union office at a date to be announced later. Tickets are necessary because the play will be presented in the Pi Eta theatre to avoid the extra expense of erecting a stage in the Union...
...facilitate business and to avoid unnecessary meetings, the Committee voted...