Word: haphazardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Association for Appointment of Football Officials was to reduce the expenses of officiating. "We feel that the game of football will be benefited in two ways by the new movement," he said. "First, the plan will stabilize one of the weakest points in the present game--the haphazard appointment of officials. Secondly, the Association will offer its services to small colleges at a nominal fee, and will continue to pay four-fifths of the total expenses of operating the organization...
...fold. The elevation of intramural sport to a new position of power and dignity should not be more far-reaching in its results than the sense of responsibility generated in the minds of those engaging in competition under the direction of the new body. Instead of a haphazard series of games played under varying conditions of personnel of teams and with diverse rules, there will be organized a system before which difficulties will be smoothed...
...Bowdoin undergraduates to copy. It has no particular name of its own. In some places, the scheme is known as "sitting in on a course," at Harvard it is known as "vagabonding," and at other institutions the name varies. Needless to say, the practice has many advantages. As haphazard as the plan may prove to be, there is always and often the chance that a so-called vagabond lecture may prove to be stimulating and may awaken a real interest in the subject concerned. Such an interest would be easily satisfied by making the vagabonding in that course a regular...
...allowed no choice at all, is unable to make good use of the unlimited choice that is suddenly thrust upon him? Is it any wonder that his choice of these last two years, which should be the perfect crown of his whole education, is often badly balanced, purposeless and haphazard...
...divorces is a scandalous, shameful thing, which should be corrected; and I do not hesitate to say this here in this city, for I know the clergy of France and all God-fearing Frenchmen and Frenchwomen will say the same as strongly as I do. . . . [Trial marriages and other haphazard conjugalities] are simply harlotry and calling them by new names does not make them any better...