Word: hap
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...arrives, finds ten or twelve names which must take precedence over his. It would probably simplify and accelerate the office affairs if each man summoned were given a specific time to call, so arranged as not to interfere with his other college engagements. As the present system is somewhat hap-hazard and annoyingly congested, this suggestion would at least introduce a more businesslike method of "handling the crowd...
...later years are those formed, not by the accidental rooming in the same entry, but by the influence of a common interest, or work in a common activity. In the two and a half years that I have lived in the Yard, I have failed to discover that the hap-hazard system has justified itself in any very marked degree: for it has in most cases fostered only acquaintances, whereas community of interest gives rise to friendships. There is nothing very snobbish about finding one man more congenial than another; and rooming in the same entry with a man implies...