Word: papered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...live coals out of the grate piled too high to keep the fire during some long absence of the occupant of the room. Many fires have been started in the College buildings by students' thoughtless practice of throwing matches and the ends of cigars or cigarettes into waste-paper baskets; but these sudden flames are as a rule put out quickly, because the chances are that the fire will start while the careless student is still in his room...
...preventing their candidates from writing at random to individual prominent men in different colleges asking for information or statistics on some subject, thereby hoping to pick up some "possibly valuable story" for which they will receive credit. The suggestion from this committee is to have an officer of the paper write for such articles as are desired, in which case they will receive prompt and thorough attention, which is not likely to happen if very indefinite requests for information are received from numerous unknown persons...
Among the more important industries which employ chemists, besides chemical and drug manufactories, may be mentioned color and print works, sugar plantations and refineries, iron and steel and other metallurgical works, paper mills, tanneries, rubber works, nitro-cellulose works, railroads, cement mills...
...honorably. Another equally strong reason is their failure to realize the entire similarity of the two kinds of cheating. Many men, who would consider it beneath their dignity and their honor to ask help from a neighbor in the classroom, are not above copying a report or a mathematics paper. Both these actions are equally forms of intellectual robbery, for, in both, the offenders are passing off as their own something that is not their own. The only difference between the two is that the unfairness of cheating in examinations is a little more palpable and its consequences...
...entering a somewhat crippled team, of uneven ability. But no track team is beaten until the points are added up, and any premature "Concessions" such as are going the rounds are as unwise as over-confident prophecies of victory. The athletic contests of late years have disproved the "paper" conclusions too many times to let those who go to the Stadium this afternoon go with the feeling rooted that the track team is not going to win. Any track team which goes on to the field as the 1914 track team will, to work their hearts out for a victory...