Word: shun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shun the New England conscience!" is one of the ten rules for avoiding nervousness laid down by Dr. Austen Fox Riggs in the current number of "Mental Hygiene." The New England conscience, he says, is a form of egotism that makes a moral issue of every trivial thought or feeling. It takes the adventure out of life and puts in its place all manner of safety-first devices which warp the mind of the possessor...
...afford to play with contagion here, where disease once started is apt to spread throughout the University like a forest fire. Fortunately, the cessation of classes offers a partial fire-break. But sore-throats and anesges are not to be tolerated; no man with even an incipient cold should shun the doctor's office. The service is free; the safeguard of an examination is not only an advantage to the man but a duty to his neighbors...
...study the life of his and other times. A part choke their understanding with the dust of mummies and never see that world which revolveth around them. They think that because they had to labour they have learned all of today. Another part have no knowledge from experience. They shun those who have labored, cling to themselves in order that they may hear their own thoughts from the lips of another.--most insidious flattery! Part are alone and cherish their loneliness lost they lose an illusion of superiority...
...have been a hardened reader of the Lampoon for years and years, and I must say I have learned to shun that annual issue to which the ex-editors contribute. Only too often it has been made up partly of the inferior work of famous graduates who fished out of a pigeon-hole their worst performance of the year and sent it along to Lampy; and partly of the ponderous jests of men who were once elected to the staff through their own sheer industry or the editors' inadvertence, and who insist on contributing to graduates' numbers just to remind...
Though almost unknown to the rest of the college, it can scarcely be said, however, to shun its part in the life of the university. On the contrary, it furnishes throughout the year a rare profusion of opportunities for becoming acquainted with the best in music, both vocal and instrumental. There are the Whiting concerts, where the layman may pick up a working knowledge of the various schools of composition and at the same time enjoy first rate performances of illustrative pieces. There are Dr. Davison's monthly organ recitals. There are also two series of endowed concerts which...