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...first the CRIMSON's Winchell started to classify those ways of spending time, but he found that this embarrassed people a great deal. For example, there was the chap who solemnly asserted that he spent all his time studying. "Yes, of course," Crimson chell agreed, politely, trying hard to avoid looking at the debrit of last night's poker game. Then there was the Freshman who said, "Me? Sure I go out every night; the milkman puts me to bed. But don't publish that...
...invariably refer to it as the Civil War. a term we have been taught to avoid, but one which most people employ; even most Southerners...
...race will be held over the new Tuckerman Ravine ski trail from the Mountaineering Club's spur cabin to the Crystal Cascade, just above Pinkham Notch. Competitors will be sent off down the trial at intervals of two minutes to avoid overlapping, but should any skier be overtaken by the man following him he is automatically disqualified. This course has been covered this winter in slightly under seven minutes...
...York as a child. In his early 20's he won a sculpture prize from the old Whitney Studio Club, ancestor of the Whitney Museum of American Art. During the War he put the trigger finger of his right hand on a block, chopped it off to avoid killing his fellow men. Later he carved a crucifix in which the Christ is minus a trigger finger...
...with which to check up on a student professing himself unable to require his services. Again, there will always be some patients disinclined to admit their inability to pay even if the loss of money incommodes them, and conversely, there will always be some well-off students who may avoid all payment. In particular, the system is unfair to the doctors, who must serve paying and non-paying students alike on their own word...