Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some large ones to make up for the general low average. Imagine a line at the Waldorf cash register without checks and not waiting for change. There would be fewer latenesses at the nine o'clock classes. But every student would undoubtedly run beyond his means in order to avoid living on the generosity of others. Soon, instead of paying indefinite sums for "Snyder and Martin", we would demand to be told the cost of three hundred copies, would divide it by three hundred, and by common agreement each would pay his exact portion. Thus, with due respect to Plato...
...wish carefully to safeguard these statements, however, by iteration and reiteration that it behooves all of us to avoid confusing the symbols and the facts of intellectuality and I should hope that under any circumstances we might avoid confusing mental gymnastics and facility in appropriating the ideas of others with genuine thinking. Unfortunately, intellectual hypocrisy and its complement, intellectual smugness, are not sufficiently infrequent even within college halls while at the same time I believe that on the whole they are as much to be avoided and that they are detrimental to the spirit of true scholarship as is ignorance...
...usual sections on the westerly side of the stadium will be reserved for season ticket holders, and it is to be expected that the elimination of the direct sale of season tickets to the public will avoid the overcrowding of that side of the field as in the past two years. As heretofore, a limited number of special tickets for each of the games, admitting to season ticket sections, will be available at the reserved seat price, for those season ticket holders who wish to take friends with them...
...conduct it is proper to consider, not what most men do, but what most men sincerely believe that men ought to do. This is wise, not in order to conform to other men's standards of conduct, but to obtain light in forming one's own standard; to avoid narrow, partial and prejudiced opinions; to ensure so far as possible that one sees clearly and fully all the considerations on which his opinions ought to be based. But when he has reached his opinion of what is right and wrong; when he has framed his standard of moral conduct...
...Class Day Spread Committee has announced that Saturday, June 10, will be the last day for receiving applications for the Class Day Spread and in view of this fact urges Seniors to purchase their tickets as soon as possible in order to avoid an unnecessary confusion on the final...