Word: dismissiveness
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Dartmouth College will not dismiss any member of its faculty and is not considering the curtailment of any salaries, although a deficit of about $100,000 is in prospect for next year. President Hopkins and the trustees are in absolute agreement as to the policy which should be followed by the college in connection with the war; namely that the curriculum should be maintained unimpaired, and the departments of instruction should not be allowed to be weakened during this war which is bringing financial stress to the college. It is believed that through this policy, Dartmouth will be able...
...illumination is at best poor, and the gas given off by the burning jets is so oppressive that the tendency is to labor entirely in the gloom rather than endure the odor. Injury to eyes or to lungs,--these are the alternatives. Recently a professor was obliged to dismiss his class, so bad had the air become on account of these antiquated gas-jets...
...authorities would dismiss the Students on Saturday, December 19, they would not be extending the vacation over that of last year. The one day more before Christmas this year would be offset by the one day less after New Year. The authorities saw fit last year to break the tradition of approximately a ten-day vacation, why can they not do the same this year? Why, again, should there be a vacation of traditional length? I am voicing the sentiment of many conscientious students who would greatly appreciate the efforts of the CRIMSON in this direction. A SENIOR...
...implicated myself, I feel called upon to object mildly to the polemic against insurance men as a class, which recently appeared in the CRIMSON. This ill-considered letter leads one to suspect that the difficulty is chiefly with the writer himself. Either he lacks the strength of personality to dismiss gracefully an over-attentive agent, or else he fails to appreciate the scientific basis and permanency of life insurance, which I stand ready to prove are established facts. I object to the imbecile attitude in regard to insurance...
...number of men with low records for the first part of their College course, later desire to secure a Degree with Distinction. Their previous lack of accomplishment is often a serious handicap. There are even more men, however, who give no second thought to the Degree with Distinction and dismiss it at once as something beyond their scope of endeavor...