Word: haphazard
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...ever present danger in so small a college town as Hanover is that the social development of the undergraduate will be neglected. With only half the college fraternally affiliated, it stands to reason that the associations and relationships of the other half are naturally of a more haphazard type. In cases where men have not been invited to join fraternities because of social or racial defects, this possibility becomes even more acute...
...plan represents a fundamental change from past practice, under which a dentist's education ceased with his graduation from the School. This has always been unsatisfactory due to the rapid progress in the scientific technique of dentistry, which graduates only gained in a haphazard fashion from numerous current magazines...
...demand for faith healing became apparent at last week's Canterbury convocation in London. Anglican priests and bishops want faith healing authenticated and formalized under the strict discipline of the Church for two reasons: 1) many have been anointing the sick and laying their hands on them in dismayingly haphazard fashion; 2) they wish to combat Christian Science, which they consider a growing menace to the Church of England. In sundry ways the Anglicans showed how appalled they were that London now has twelve Christian Science churches, whereas five years ago the number was only seven, and ten years...
...Maecenas' son was carrying a chain as a surveyor's assistant in Joplin. Shortly thereafter he began a long, arduous, uninteresting art apprenticeship as a newspaper cartoonist, then as an art student in Chicago, Paris, New York, where he kept himself alive painting scenery for the old haphazard cinema studios of Fort Lee, N. J. Six months in the Navy during the War knocked the French impressionism out of him. He began to develop his own style. In 1919 he started work on a project that bore its first tangible fruits last week: a gigantic pictorial history...
...Senior Class ballots tomorrow morning, provides a new option among the methods heretofore offered for the contribution to the class fund. A yearly budget method of preparing for the twenty-fifth reunion has been found both more productive and more acceptable to the majority of graduates than a haphazard system of gifts and contributions. Consequently it must be admitted that whatever method of payment is used, it must become in, which there is a regular and cumulative supply of funds being gathered over a period of years...