Word: haphazardly
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...time for serious attention to outside lectures. Distinguished scholars are swallowed up in the round of college life. Many men today miss the opportunity to sit under these scholars. Visiting professorships would not only mean reaching a larger undergraduate audience, but would insure organized study in place of the haphazard browsing which, at best, is the only follow-up of these lectureships...
...ruling of the Committee on Admissions that transfer students will in the future be admitted only to the Freshman and Sophomore classes is another definite step in making the possession of a Harvard diploma more than a haphazard occurrence. By causing every student to spend at least three years at Harvard before graduation, the University is increasing the value of its A.B. or Engineering degree...
...Reading Period and the examinations that immediately follow it. It would seem only natural that every measure be taken to ensure that they function at the greatest efficiency possible. And yet the fact is only too painfully apparent to all who make use of them that only the most haphazard and unsatisfactory solutions has been devised for one problem of more than slight importance--that of ventilation...
...advantages to a future business career are perhaps more obvious. A general knowledge of the current influences affecting the business man's particular locality would be an invaluable aid in determining the ever-present equation of supply and demand. This replacement of haphazard judgments by scientific research means more than reading between the lines of Industrial reports. It is the substitution of fact for fancy...
...this or that athletic group. But in the selection and management of all college teams the captain's authority is final, and the bulk of the coaching is done by the more experienced men under the direction of the captain. I have heard participants in several sports complain of haphazard organization and scanty training. One college tennis captain told me, for instance, that there is practically no coaching at all in tennis and that the selection of the team is often strongly influenced by favoritism on the part of the captain. I have also heard from cricket and soccer...