Word: omiting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sterne, Swift, Tennyson, Thackeray, Thomson, Waller, - the list might be continued indefinitely. Every student of English literature should know something about every one of these authors. The only courses of instruction granted to us in which we can learn something about the general literature of England, (for I purposely omit all reference to American authors) are two unsatisfactory half-courses, in neither one of which is given more than twenty-eight hours of instruction during the year. These half courses, besides being wholly inadequate to the needs of the college, are so grouped, moreover, that they cannot be taken...
...conflicting recitations. This subject of the hours for recitations is one of no little moment to students. There are some men who, at the close of their freshman or the beginning of their sophomore year, make a plan of their future electives, and frequently they are compelled to omit some very much desired course because the hours of its recitations are already taken up. This is a remedy which, although it might not find favor with our already over-worked instructors, yet because it would be of so much benefit to the students, we feel justified in suggesting...
...decided improvement over the former work of the club, especially in the double-bird match, though the figures in this match were kept down somewhat by a stiff breeze from the southwest. Owing to the large number of entries in the regular matches, it was found necessary to omit the customary "scrub-team" match. The summary of the afternoon's work is as below...
...misfortune of the section in History 13 to lose one month of valuable instruction at the beginning of the year through the illness of Dr. Hart. In order to make up for lost time, the lectures have been condensed, and it is occasionally necessary to omit the discussion of some important question. As abridgment of this course is unfortunately unavoidable, every available minute should be seized upon to make this abridgment as slight as possible. Owing to the size of the class, however, which consists of over one hundred men, the instructor is obliged to spend valuable time in marking...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- The officers of the H. A. A. have decided to omit the standing high jump from the list of events at the winter meetings, and to substitute therefor the running broad jump. They have done this on the ground that the standing jump is no longer contested at the Mott Haven sports. Is this, however, the only consideration...