Word: haphazardly
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...basically. A house can be built without being cellared in cement but when it is cellared in cement it stands the more solidly. So the savior faire which grows out of the associations peculiar to the university has a breadth and depth and stability such as the more haphazard contacts of the outside world never yield. The round of human nature being to so large a degree the writer's habitat the college man enters it by the door instead of through the window or down the chimney...
...units which sprang up all over the country, the summer training camps, and the general stress laid on physical development. Since the war, unfortunately, this feeling has largely died down with the result that the schools seem to be slipping back into the old paths of physical carelessness and haphazard methods of physical training...
These four functions of the committee were performed in a haphazard manner by a various assortment of class officers, Crimson "heelers" and others who happened about in the nick of time...
Investigation of the stupendous expenditures made by the leading Presidential candidates in their fight for the nomination has shown that something is radically wrong with our present haphazard primary system. The candidates who have been scattering hundreds of thousands of dollars throughout the country are no more to blame than the conditions which made their orgy of spending possible...
...commissions which divided executive authority and establishing in their stead nine departments, each having control of one division of the government. The cumbersome State Board of Equalization, consisting of 25 members elected politically, has been abolished and a State Tax Commission of three experts has taken its place. The haphazard method of making appropriations by the legislature, with each institution and department asking for what it thought it could get and the legislature appropriating what it pleased, has been done away with and a satisfactory budget system is now used in making all appropriations...