Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman class, each spring leave the thought of securing rooms for next year until late in the season. Procrastination of this sort can only result in an unsatisfactory solution of the problem. When so large a number of students change their rooms every year, it is difficult to avoid confusion and mistakes--especially if all the applications are sent in at practically the same time. Now, before the hurry and stress of the last months of the season, should thought be given to the morrow. For now it will take but a slight effort to safeguard against much future trouble...
...Executive Committee of the Conference realizes that its meetings may easily degenerate into periods of fruitless argumentation, and, by such means as requiring a "definite program," is taking every precaution to avoid this weakness. Even this danger, however, is no excuse for the attitude of the Student Council...
...thorough preparatory grounding has taken two years in Latin, French, and German or Spanish. The courageous high school student is faced with the alternatives of entering a state university or entering Harvard under the College Board Examinations as a candidate for the S. B. degree. To avoid a degree which does not in the least indicate his field of college study, this student must fit himself for the three-year Latin examination; a herculean task if undertaken without help; an expensive one if received from the "window"; a costly expenditure of valuable time if gained by attending the Cambridge, Latin...
...days' trip through the western part of the State. In preparation for the latter two games, which will be played in smaller cages than Hemenway, some practice was done yesterday to strengthen the defense. Two forwards sent down on one back helped the forwards to learn how to avoid the back also. Practice ended with a ten minutes' scrimmage...
...page in the report is devoted to the increase in numbers in the College, especially to the number of unclassified students from other colleges, "why they go to another college first . . . we do not know and we are trying to discover." Some use that method hoping to avoid the entrance examinations, thereby losing more than they gain. For the student who has not lived in the Freshman dormitories is greatly handicapped in the loss of the associations and intimacies which are an integral part of the life of the first-year man. The unclassified student is most welcome at Harvard...