Word: lest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forced to accept an S.B. rather than an A.B. simply because they entered college without Latin. When generations of graduates have found that college training made life sufficiently more interesting as to warrant their sending their sons back to the old institutions, is it surprising that alumni become anxious lest the modern college become a genteel trade school? But there need be no cause for alarm; at the end of his college career the average student will agree that the graduate schools should be increased to infinitum if need be, but that the college itself must be guarded from...
...tendency to criticize the American college system is becoming almost a disease. Adverse views, unless carefully considered, should be withheld, lest they prove superficial and destructive. For the great majority of undergraduates, the present system of mass instruction is adequate at least; but does not the exceptional man deserve something more? College authorities, the country over, in their rush to gain members, too often neglect the scholar. In the whirl of business that surrounds the present day university, the brilliant student should not be left to receive only the teaching that is given to the ordinary...
...sudden postponement of the class pictures scheduled for today will bring chagrin to Seniors celebration-bent and no little regret to their Freshman victims. As the picture has been announced for over a week, the intervention of authority at the last minute was unexpected, to say the least. Apprehension lest the Freshmen scuff holes in the granite steps or in their excitement sling their pennies through the plate-glass doors, may have been the difficulty. It was also feared that the strong men of 1921 might try coercive methods in persuading the tight-fisted yearlings to "come across...
...quite sure. Perhaps that is why she is so dogmatic about it and so relentless in her pursuit of the outward signs. Having claimed so much, the honor and self-respect of the sex demand that it refuse everything in the remotest degree resembling a "favor", lest it be construed as an acknowledgement of weakness...
...improving the Lodge. Nor is the parallel of reward and punishment lacking: through the good offices of the Mayor, one young lumberjack who proved his worth has obtained a job; while the somewhat haughty officials in charge of the Wayfarer's Lodge will be more careful in the future lest they again be entertaining "angels unawares...