Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...could tell the round-shouldered, hollow-chested, crooked-legged, weak-backed, how to remedy their defects, and put them at work on suitable apparatus in the gymnasium; a man who could tell the boating-man, the bicyclist, the base-ball player, what he most needed and what he should avoid; and, with all this, a man who by his character would win the confidence as well as the respect of the students...
...single-scullers to the necessity of keeping a clear course on the river for the University Crew. The lively interest which has been lately aroused in boating has caused the river to be somewhat crowded at the hour when the Crew rows, and it is, perhaps, almost impossible to avoid an occasional accident. Yet it is exceedingly annoying for the Crew to be obliged to alter its course to avoid running down a "gentleman four," or some tyro in the art of sculling, who has got caught in a bridge. At Oxford no mercy is shown to any unfortunate oarsman...
Although a low college rank cannot make void or hardly detract from real acquirements, yet there always follows it a sense of injustice which a college should by every possible means seek to avoid, as it burns into the very marrow of the young and sensitive...
...student well knows, however disinclined some may be, for very obvious reasons, to acknowledge or speak of it. Not only is the average system often unjust, but it is calculated, in the case of those students who strive only for marks, to work serious evil. The only way to avoid this result is courageously to sacrifice college rank to more solid advantages in after life...
...rent of his old college room has been trebled, and tells his boys that they must go to some cheap college in the country, - if indeed he is able to send them to any. Stronger cases than this might be easily adduced. The merchant who is struggling to avoid bankruptcy, the holder of real estate whose value has sunk below the mortgage, cannot enter the academic confessional and make known their griefs. The adjective poor as applied to those who seek the higher education has only a relative significance, - they are not generally in want of food or shelter. Bearing...