Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...whole trend of his argument is against the practice of forcing the preparatory school to become a mere sausage machine that turns out a uniform procession of automatons stuffed with a scientifically balanced ration of minutiae. The danger is, however, that in attempting to avoid this evil by relying on the preparatory school to provide a sound background without the scourge of the College Boards, the matter of the varying quality of the various secondary schools is neglected. And in addition to this, under Dr. Snedden's plan the requirements of individual colleges are given no consideration. The result...
...Hallowell '31, who was still absent from practice with the Crimson yesterday because of a severe cold, is expected back in the boat in time to avoid a shakeup before the regatta Saturday...
...reason for this deprivation is based on the solid ground that novelty-chasing is an evil; but how this applies to the most recent achievements of the Club, plays by such conventional authors as John Galsworthy and A. A. Milne, is not explained. The CRIMSON further allows that "by avoiding musical comedy or the re-hashing of box-office successes, the Dramatic Club escapes the stigma" of producing "amateur theatricals;" at the same time, however, the editorial ventures that a "Liliom" would not be amiss. The conclusion would seem to be that principles are all very well, so long...
...indifference if not of antagonism. You regard the farm problem like the poor, as something 'we have with us always.' You discuss it along the same lines as the ladies refer to the household help problem-something that has to be endured if one is to avoid having to do the work oneself...
Similarly with the ether highways of the radio world: the wave-bands assigned to different stations must be spaced across the radio spectrum to avoid overlapping, garbling of messages. Reducing the "width" of the wave-bands would make "more room...