Word: dabbler
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...club feels that its present location on the fourth floor of Agassiz keeps many students from bothering to watch the Dabbler activities. A Dabbler exhibit will go on display in the Halls in Agassiz shortly after spring vacation...
...plays with his own theater company, in his own private theater. He is fond of odd pets, which have included several porcupines and an elephant named Charlie. He has his own private orchestra, which plays for his rare but lavish parties. But young (38) Sir John is no lighthearted dabbler; he is deadly serious about three things...
...Treasurer's Statement referred to was the one of the year 1872 and was published over the signature of Nath. Silsbee, Yankee-visaged son of a Salem merchant, Treasurer pro tem of the College, and a dabbler in politics. To be completely accurate, the reported principal in Mr. Silsbee's admirable Statement...
Thou Art the Man. Such a dabbler, at first, was affable, average-man Neil Kingsblood. Like all his friends in Grand Republic, Neil simply took for granted that Negroes were unfit for racial equality because they were lazy, dishonest and incapable of intellectual development. And in this comfortable state of prejudice Neil remains-until he reads the old letter which proves to him that he is one-thirty-second-part Negro himself...
Though not subject to the long-term sequence required of the concentrator, the department dabbler is little better off. Lacking the manpower requisite for duplicate elementary courses, the department can differentiate its beginning students only on the basis of their high school preparation. But a similarity of background will not make up for pronounced differences in ability and the liberal arts man, strayed from his home department, often finds the division arbitrary and the subject-matter over-whelming. The emphasis on memory work in the elementary stage is another irritant for the non-concentrator who would like a survey...