Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...guise of handicapping, and is a disgrace to all who are responsible for it. When the club next give any handicap games, if they will submit to us their list of entries, we will cheerfully furnish such information as will enable them to frame a just handicap and avoid such abominations as we saw last Saturday...
...going to the theatre, and do not care to dine in town, avoid all cars before half past seven, for the men who take these want to get to the theatre before the play begins, - a thing quite unendurable to any fellow of taste. You will meet more of your own style between half past seven and eight than at any other hour. The cars after this hour you will not, I hope, find it often necessary...
Seniors are particularly requested to avoid any absurdity of dress at the exercises around the Tree...
...speaking for the Boylston prizes next Thursday promises to be unusually interesting. The preliminary contest has reduced the number of speakers, so that the contest will not be wearisomely long, and special care has been taken to avoid the dull and hackneyed selections which have bored listeners in previous years. Much credit is due the instructors who have brought about this change, and have labored to make the contest something more than the dreary affair it has usually been. We wish, now, to urge upon all students the importance of attending it. Prize speaking is a matter of college interest...
...proper time. But the Seniors do not seem to realize the importance of making timely preparation for the day, and of sending their invitations at an early date. We are therefore requested by the Class Day Committee to call their attention to the posters, and to urge them to avoid needless delays...