Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Athletes and managers avoid afternoon courses more than other under graduates, but the committee adds that on the whole "there is so little undergraduate instruction given after 2.30 that athletic practice would not seem to interfere seriously with the wise choice of courses", except perhaps in regard to laboratory courses...
...samples through in bond, tried to return half the well earned tip that we gave him. The first-class car that we entered here was clean, and newly and attractively upholstered, both seat-coverings and curtains being of paper fabric, as in nearly all the cars in Germany. To avoid a wrong impression one should say that the returning of tips or their refusal was not found to be a habit, despite the stringent national anti-tipping law; and that most of the cars had dingy and well worn paper-cloth upholstery, and were not very well cleaned. The Sleeper...
...junior high school is a case in point. Out of its very program of training, therefore, there arises in a School of Education the demand for continued research. The general educational situation presents so many unsolved problems that a university professor of education could not, in any case, avoid the demand for continued investigation and study. Research is therefore part and parcel of the work of both Faculty and students, just as it is in the Business School and Medical School...
...profession and of the institutions in which its work is carried on; it calls also for mastery of the technical elements of the profession, its routine of habits, skills and adjustments; but it calls most of all for the spirit of research. The Graduate School of Education would avoid making radicals or iconoclasts of its students, but it would avoid equally making them narrowly skillful practitioners in an accepted educational scheme...
Candidates from the Freshman class for the position of Second Assistant Football Manager will be expected to report at 1 o'clock at the H. A. A. Arrangements can be made at the meeting to avoid conflict with spring activities, but, irrespective of whether or hot they can do any work this spring, all men who intend to compete next fall must attend the meeting. No previous experience is required...