Word: regard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to a vote of the administrative board announced by Dean Hanford this morning, all undergraduates whose academic grades at the November reckoning averaged B or better may exercise the Dean's List privilege in regard to the extension of their Christmas holidays. This step is both wise and timely. It recognizes and removes the stigma of illegality from what has been a common practice among men who did not attain official Dean's List ranking at the January or June times of demarcation, but raised the record of their scholastic progress to the required level at November...
...attend his last College exercise before and his first college exercise after the Christmas recess. By a recent vote of the Administrative Board, students, including Freshmen, whose November records average B or higher may, upon obtaining permission from their respective Assistant Deans, be allowed Dean's List privileges in regard to the extension of the Christmas recess. The notice appearing on Friday, December 14, that this latter privilege did not extend to Freshmen was the result of an office error...
...peril was that courses in which personal contacts and discussion groups could not be sacrificed without loss would be stampeded into a blind acceptance of the idea, and the decision of the Department of Economics in regard to its introductory course is reassuring on that score. Other courses that tried the experiment last year have decided to hold optional meetings during the next Reading Period and there is no longer any reason to fear that it will be adopted or retained where it would be actually detrimental...
...18th Amendment, and the Volstead law, they seem to feel no obligation to protest. They would look at this law, that is declared in the Constitution and in the statute book, with contempt. One hears intelligent people say: 'As this contracts my liberty, I don't regard it as necessary to observe it.' Although they don't intend to, if they say that, they are justifying the principle of anarchy...
...regard to the binding of new books purchased abroad, these are bound in the country from which they are purchased, in the case of France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. These foreign books are usually bound in leather, Within the last fifteen years leather has been replaced in the binding of books in America by buckram cloth, a library cloth in various colors, which is exceptionally long-wearing, and must come up to government standards, maintained by yearly tests...