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That it is distinctly a misfortune to require the unhappy instructors to forego their feeble pleasures is not to be denied; in the interests of their helpless victims, however, they should be required to omit this dim joy and give their examinations at least a cursory glance before they are unveiled...
...Love" and other local color books we get a good picture of that eccentric zealot, the assistant managerial or plain managerial candidate. He is content, especially if he is a kudos-seeking Freshman, to forego his "inner check" and become perhaps even weird in his sense of the power and the glory of the H.A.A. So the antics of one of these flunkies in trying to bar Mr. Bingham from penetrating the Soldiers Field barricade to watch his own Freshman football team surprises us not. But too much discipline is a dangerous thing...
...main reason for this shift is that membership in the Houses is not open to students in the Engineering School, and men desirous of undergraduate activities in the Houses must forego the opportunities of the Engineering School. But at the same time, undergraduate students have been advised to seek preparatory training in the field of Engineering Sciences in Harvard College, then entering the Engineering School as graduate students, continuing their work for a year or two more. However, a college diploma is not one of the requirements of the Engineering School, and those wishing to take a four year course...
...matter cannot be reached. If the University restricted the consumption of its beer to the dining halls, it would materially reduce any competition with local merchants; this favor could be returned by the Cambridge authorities in the form of a reasonably low license fee, if they were willing to forego the opportunity of knifing the University...
...Cheers, Hubbub? In Geneva dapper, snowy-crested Ambassador Gibson amplified and emphasized his reading of the President's proposal by adding: "In our most powerful arm, the Navy, we are prepared as part of this general program to scrap more than 300,000 tons of existing ships and to forego the right to build more than 50,000 tons. In land material our proposal would affect more than 1,000 heavy mobile guns, approximately 900 tanks, and, in aviation, about 300 bombing airplanes...