Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...view, was an utter failure. There is no use in crying over spilt milk (in this case amounting to several thousand dollars) but it would be well to find out who was at fault in giving our delegation a false impression of the conference, so that we may avoid a repetition of the blunder...
...great pity is that today strikes such as this was hastily patched up without any provisions to avoid future difficulties of the same sort. The public is temporarily shocked, some one produces a makeshift never based on a scientific investigation, peace is proclaimed (but a peace which is merely an armed trace), the public sits back, breathes a sigh of relief and forgets all about it. Industrial Conferences sit at Washington, break up and sit again, but leave us no nearer a definite industrial code or method of settling strikes than we were before...
Students who subscribed for Registers without paying are advised to purchase their copies from one of the agencies mentioned above and thus avoid the delay incident to delivery to their rooms...
...hand, the college man stands, to a certain degree, aloof from the rank and file of the nation. A ward boss has a ten to one chance of defeating him in a municipal election. Therefore, he avoids local politics. And, on the other hand, the college man's interest in his own affairs, his desire to make more money, and to avoid controversy and compromise turns his course into business, or anything but politics...
...Early specialization by the student is another need, both to avoid wasted time and energy and to promote interest in his work. The talk about college entrance requirements developing a many-sided scholar is absolutely tommyrot, as any honest schoolmaster will tell...