Word: haphazard
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...Without the tutorial system general examinations are but a test of knowledge acquired during a frenzied year . . . of haphazard cramming of a multitude of facts and general conceptions...
...spite of the fact that much of the first social service in this country was started by students in universities, the value and potential effectiveness of undergraduate volunteers is still questioned. While no one can deny that more harm than good is done by haphazard and lackadaisical humanitarianism, it does not in the least follow that therefore all such impulses should be incontinently stifled...
...houses on country roads, friends and relatives of Vassar sophomores seize upon the papers, push eager forefingers along the Daisy Chain, from face to face. If they thus discover the countenance of their friend or relative, they instantly set their heads at an angle, compare some other countenance selected haphazard from the file of flowery faces with that on which their finger rests...
...very youngest class, should be the first number of the year. It is generally such a lame affair, for which, let us add, there is some slight reason. Two or more summer months of idleness, a flood of special deliveries and telegrams the week before college opens, a few haphazard, pointless contributions by editors whose thoughts are at the time still waiting for the sunrise, and the lone editor who has returned to Cambridge, duty-bound and royally peevish, scrambles the horrible collection together, shouts to the printer, falls into bed, and another "Freshman number" looks the Square...
...studying in theory from books and lectures. Although arguments can be presented for both sides, the important factor to be considered is that, judging from present indications, most generals of industry seem to consider two years of directed training superior to a similar period spent in the school of haphazard experience...