Word: omitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considered--including Europe, this country is not entirely devoid of merit. Others may not like us, in fact he says, "Columbus, I suppose, was one of the few foreigners who were agreeably surprised when they discovered America". But foreigners are a luxury which we may, if it he necessary, omit. And so are the continental ex-patriates a type to which Mr. Boyd devotes the major part of his article...
...Guthrie asks the deletion of the statement, which appears in a campaign pamphlet of the Endowment Fund Committee, on the ground that it gives a false impression that it was made after Mr. Taft became chief justice. W. M. Powell '96, chairman of the committee, has refused to omit the statement, and Mr. Guthrie wrote him yesterday, stating his reason for asking for the withdrawal of the phrase...
...always disappointed when you omit the medical section from TIME...
...slight. The second is rather more substantial. A sufficient knowledge of American literature is all but essential to a balanced estimate of American society. If untutored in American literature since grammar school days, the college student will return to vague memories of "Barbara Frietsche" and so, meditating, will omit literature from consideration...
...recent vote of the faculty permitting specially recommended candidates for distinction to omit one course in both junior and senior years is a logical step in the harmonization of the tutorial and lecture systems. Last year, members of the class of 1925, who were permitted under the same restrictions to work at the rate of three courses during their senior year, benefited greatly by the privilege. Of the 17 men selected, two got degrees summa cum laude, eight magna cum laude, and six cum laude. Only one failed to gain distinction...