Word: averting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...victory was won, rather than on the street or in the college yard. Jarvis is far better in its facilities and its position, and we cannot afford to sun the gauntlet of the city authorities or to put our trees and college buildings in jeopardy. A little discretion may avert a deal of mischief...
...same time urging us to live an active life, not to wait for some better opportunity to do good, but to adjust ourselves to the environments in which God has placed us. The cultivation of our souls lies as much in doing good to others as in attempting to avert uncleanliness from ourselves...
...Harvard had won, and no authentic information was had until about nine o'clock the true score was brought out from Bostom. Such a state of uncertainty was a source of continual worry and anxiety, and no wonder men felt as though they had not been treated fairly. To avert a like state of affairs again, the manager should be instructed to send the score of every game played away from Cambridge without fail, and then perhaps those who remain here will not be hoodwinked into cheering pseudo Harvard victories...
...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...