Word: averter
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...class is one who stands high, not in literature or science or philosophy, but in more physical agility. The larger portion of the ordinary news organ of the college is often given up to the report of games. I have asked the faculty to devise effective measures to avert these excesses. A committee has prepared a careful report on the subject. I trust we will be sustained in our efforts by parents and by the public press. In Princeton no student is allowed to contend in any public game without the written permission of his parent or guardian. But there...
...Further investigation showed that the appointment of the Sprague-Bliss committee was only a step in the vast conspiracy to overthrow the State and National governments and to concentrate all power in the hands of the Alpha Delta Phi Society. It is, perhaps, even now too late to avert the threatened calamity, but, whatever may be the result, the country owes unspeakable gratitude to the World for its bold exposure of the truth. The Alpha Delta Phi Society has hitherto been supposed to be a harmless college society, organized for the purpose of permitting its members to wear breast-pins...
...wish again to call attention to the numerous pedlers who infest the buildings. It seems almost impossible to avert this evil. In spite of the notices posted in the entries scarcely a day passes during which we are not troubled by some suspicious-looking persons assailing us with petitions containing a long account of their afflicted families, and demand aid. We hope the janitors will exert themselves to stop this nuisance...
...such cases of temporary embarrassment the Corporation are now completely helpless. They are powerless to avert the injury which is inflicted upon the whole University by serious though temporary reverses in any one of its departments; they cannot contend against that sense of general instability which such reverses are calculated to inspire; they cannot prevent frequent breaks in the continuity of the development of the various departments, although that continuity is essential to economy of administration, to robustness of growth, and to the dignity of the University...
...their hats. I, as you know, could not unwind my turban in a public place, but I took off my slipper and gazed in that. I presume he was cursing them. Some yawned and got behind pillars, while others took from their pockets books of charms, no doubt to avert the imprecation...