Word: averter
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...pitiful. It seems unkind to laugh at the lonely old fellow as he flits about his former haunts, only to find new faces and unkind greetings on every hand. We have laughed at his follies; now, when the folly begins to lose its mirth in sadness, we had best avert our eyes...
...society? Will it be due to your carelessness and indifference that Harvard will have the disgrace of failing in an enterprise which is being carried on with success at other colleges? No, we think not. We feel sure that, now that examinations are over, you will come forward and avert the pending misfortune; but, because the amount necessary to be raised is so ridiculously small, do not, therefore, think that your help is not needed. And yet do not look upon the Co-operative Society as an object of charity. and think that you are doing it and the University...
...better, the circumstances themselves have changed. A failure then under those circumstances, does not necessarily mean another failure now under the existing circumstances. We ask the committee to post pone action in the matter until after the convention. We appreciate our danger and will do all we can to avert it. We only demand a fair chance, and slight delay which we ask does not seem an unreasonable request...
...null and void. Already we have heard sundry freshmen announce their intention of disregarding in future all summonses which fail to meet the legal requirements. We print these few words of warning, therefore, in the earnest hope that the proper authorities will promptly correct the existing errors, and thus avert the impending difficulties...
...should like to remind the college in general, and the seniors in particular, that the question of admitting freshmen to the tree exercises is agitated each year at the wrong time. By anticipating it, considerable trouble and any feeling of unjust treatment on the part of '87 will be averted, if it be settled at the beginning of the year once for all; and certainly a spirit of fairness would suggest that a final decision now-before the freshmen have begun to look upon it as a right requiring columns of the HERALD-CRIMSON at the end of the year...