Word: circumventions
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One word about rules. I sometimes get an absurd letter from some man, who fails to grasp what seems a simple point, and apparently thinks that rules are set up to suit the whim of the Librarian, and therefore it is a fair game to circumvent them; that fines or...
In order that candidates may be chosen from men who have had, or are completing, a college education a special provision has been made to circumvent the regulation which prevented the acceptance of a candidate unless he is already in the military service. Students now-registered under the draft law...
In so far as cribbing is due to the puerile notion that the very presence of the proctor is an invitation to circumvent him, I doubt whether the honor system would result in any greater maturity of moral conceptions. To sign a statement at the end of an examination paper...
To circumvent this decision of the Supreme Court, the city of Cambridge has, during the past month, been attempting to carry a bill in the State Legislature, asking that the College property be assessed for its full value of over $10,000,000 and that this tax be paid to...
The mandates which from time to time have been issued by the faculty have done little, except to arouse opposition, and to excite in the more turbulent students a desire to circumvent the issuers of these prohibitory proclamations. As a result, bon-fires have been kindled in dangerous places in...