Word: averting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...these two dangers are so inherent in the present system that one is tempted to magnify them and to consider them permanent defects. Defects they are not. They are dangers, serious, but still perfectly possible to avert. In these respects, the CRIMSON looks forward with confidence to gradual but steady improvement. Coach Forbes and Captain Cabot entered upon this fall's work with their eyes open to these difficulties. To their credit be it said that they have stuck to their purpose consistently. The men have, as a rule, been kept in good condition, and, in spite of inevitable criticism...
After a few innings had been played there ceased to be any doubt about the result, the only question being whether the game would end in a whitewash for the seniors or not. They managed to avert this catastrophe by scoring an earned run in the ninth inning on a hit by Dodge, a stolen base, and two timely sacrifices...
...large element and the best element of Ninety-five was opposed to the rush and took no part in it. To them we feel confident that we may express the approbation and the thanks of the university, though we regret that their good influence was not sufficient to avert the scene of last night. The individual members of the class who took part in the rush can feel that they have acted in a childish, ungentlemanly part, which has brought censure upon themselves and through them upon the class to which they belong...
...bills are somehow footed. And sometimes it is a fleet-footed foreigner who has an easy business place found for him in order that he may carry club-colors to the front. Even the spectator will in a few years become the most rabid denunciator of these practices. To avert such a decline in athletics, the younger men in the ranks must be educated upon what are heresies, to so imbue them with the meaning of the term amateur that they will never consider playing for gain except as belonging to the professional class, and that they will always feel...
...compose the management which has tried to run the club on the principle not of the best singer but the jolliest fellow; the management which has conducted itself disgracefully at out of town concerts; the management which had charge of the present concert and which did absolutely nothing to avert the failure which the club...