Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stay until June." Now he has dropped German and has Prof. Muensterberg. I saw your article on "The Scholarship Service Bureau" and now he has a tutor in Mathematics. Believe me I'll do my best not to have him thrown out in June, but how to prevent it I hardly know, but I urge my son to study hard and do his best. Now cannot you understand very easily that "Who is to blame?" Why the system, of course, is wrong to make them all keep one pace with no help outside from the teacher. There should be personal...
With the beginning of University tennis practice today, it seems probable that from now on the usual overcrowding of the tennis courts will prevent full accommodation...
Last January the Student Council declared unanimously against probation for failure to pass the orals, and a committee was authorized to send a petition to the Faculty. This was followed by conferences with President Lowell, in order to prevent a repetition of past experiences and to make sure that the students' cause received careful attention at the Faculty meeting instead of being summarily dismissed. As the negotiations proceeded, it soon became evident that the solutions proposed in the Student Council petition and in an article in the "Illustrated" offered little promise of winning approval. Both these solutions, despite minor differences...
...believes is deserving of all praise. But there is another patriotism which is harder to give because it has no drum beating accompaniment, because those who give their lives in its cause do not today die heroes. It is a patriotic sacrifice which is not merely the attempt to prevent an evil already done from going further, as is that of the volunteer soldier, but one which is at least a constructive beginning towards preventing the need for making such sacrifices at all. Why should not the inspiration of the present war call forth a practical patriotism on the part...
Even though there were many more profitable and pleasant ways of spending a summer vacation--in travel or in outdoor work of many kinds--which six weeks in one of the camps would largely prevent, yet it is not on such grounds that the danger of the Military Camps lies. General Wood has called attention with admirable frankness to the emphasis which the camps will place on the spreading of sound information as to the "present military needs of the country." The CRIMSON hesitates to question the judgment of our military authorities as to the real value of six weeks...