Word: omit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...extinguished even by the wave of our modernism. We must not make Tacitus merely an object of linguistic or literary or historical study to a man who reads him for the first and, probably, for the last time, simply because Tacitus is great in all these fields and to omit one of them is to belittle the author. After all, even if scrambled eggs do not suit our taste, we must use some salt or pepper or bread or fire to go with them. A raw egg is hardly palatable to the average man. ARISTIDES E. PHOUTRIDES...
...Student Council Committee on Military Affairs has decided to omit the following section of the tentative enrollment agreement: "I shall endeavor, to the best of my ability, to attend, and will encourage others to attend, the camps of military instruction to be held during the summer of 1916." This has been done because the great number of hostile criticisms seemed to indicate that the consensus of opinion in the University is against this provision...
...means up to the highest standards which the magazine is capable of attaining. But it shows that the new Board is wholly alive and is keeping up the radical policy which is the raison d'etre of the Review. Only in future issues it should omit the phrases about the "sighing 'cellos' and other such commonplaces, not to mention the too frequent use of the first person singular. R. H. SESSIONS...
...enter, provided he has a sense of humor and a pen. Or he may omit...
...irreplaceable occasion. The time necessary for a feeling of class unity to become vivid has not yet elapsed and sheer lack of stimulus may well account for many men neglecting the dinner. But the upper classes know that the Freshman Dinner is one of the last things they would omit from the varied experiences of their college career...