Word: omit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...answered in twenty minutes can not always be a fair test of a hundred or more pages of scattered reading. Would it not be better, since the outlay for competent assistants is necessarily limited, either to have the short paper given in the regular lecture hour and omit inane discussion, or to devote the entire period to a more adequate test of the required work...
...joint meeting of the 1910 smoker and dinner committees, held yesterday afternoon, it was decided to omit the usual Senior dinner this year. Instead, a farewell smoker will take place in the Union on Tuesday evening, June 21. Definite arrangements have not been completed as yet, but the plan is to have a general entertainment...
...chief reason why so many lectures strike the average student as useless is that he finds in his lecture notes little or nothing that is not better stated in books of reference. Often his notes contain serious errors, due to haste or confusion of mind; more often still they omit the most important facts. There can be no doubt that facts can be learned far more thoroughly and accurately from printed than from spoken words. Criticism, comment, and explanation can, on the other hand be admirably conveyed in lectures, provided the hearer is already acquainted with the facts upon which...