Word: loath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dangerous as it sounds. There are more people killed or injured each year hunting sharks with knives or playing Russian roulette, than in slat sailing. In a recent article Art Devlin claimed jumpers are hurt only once in every thousand jumps, but Lloyds of London is still loath to take any policies in the ski-jumping field...
Refreshingly different from other college libraries in its minimum fines and restrictions, Widener is loath to revert to the edict of 1931 and expel every student caught defacing a book. But in view of the wholesale destruction of bound newspaper copies, the cross-hatching of back examination forms, and the tendency to question the statements of unpopular authors with ink and bad taste, the library staff may be forced to apply thumb screws where simple warnings fail. However, even the most stringent regulations would only tax the ingenuity of college doodle bugs; any real amelioration of the situation must come...
Golf proved the only stumbling block to the group's efforts, as nearby links seemed loath to allow students to use their facilities. Final arrangements as well as complete schedules for all sports will be drawn up in a second meeting of the House secretaries on Friday...
Seconding the dissatisfaction of the non-concentrator are the demands of the pre-med, another department patron by necessity rather than by choice. Loath to duplicate the concentrator's heavy lab schedule, the pre-med must nevertheless abstract the meat of the fundamental courses and consequently asks for a tailor-made class. But department inertia and/or the lack of facilities have prevented the realization of a special course and, despite the success of its pre-war counterpart, no revival is in the offing...
...down class unity as was buce feared) and another change, the removal of the Dana-Palmer House in order to clear ground for the Lamont Undergraduate Library created a commotion that forced the authorities to alter their plans. But if the Alumni are a conservative force, they are also loath to exert active pressure on College officials. The word of the President or the Provost is generally, if not always, accepted as most authoritative by the hardest-bitten grad...