Word: omit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advance guard's difficulties on the way, and the Crusonian adventures they experienced, I must omit from this letter. They have just rejoined us here at Chita, with careful maps of the route they took and the discoveries they made. It will now be a simple matter for the whole expedition, now in good health, to make its way up the Urubamba Valley...
Contrary to the announcement in yesterday's Crimson that Professor C. N. Greenough '98 would omit all his courses this year, he will give his course on "American Literature"--English...
...History Department will suffer three losses this year. Professor Julius Klein '13 will be connected with the Department of Commerce; his course on the "History of Latin America" will be conducated by Mr. R. F. Arragon and his other courses will be omitted. Professor A. C. Coolidge '87 will be away on the Hoover Relief Expedition to Russia for the first half year at least. He will be unable to give his courses on "The Eastern Question", and on "Topics in European History, 1875-1912", and may be unable to give his course on Continental Europe...
After being told in the first lecture of History 1 that history is the study of everything that has happened--and more, the complacent freshman sometimes thinks seriously of dropping the course until his fears are assuaged by the assurance that the lecturer will be forced to omit a few minor details. Subsequently he learns that all the world is chemistry; and is later informed that the atoms and electrons are the pet playthings of the physicists. With everybody intruding on everybody else's territory, is it surprising that the undergraduate not infrequently studies physics under a mathematics professor...
...take this test again in his final examination together with his poetry. Thus he must carry on the irk-some study of composition for a full year longer than any other college requires. That this is an unpopular regulation is shown by the large number of Harvard candidates who omit Latin poetry during their last school year, thereby avoiding the final Latin examination...