Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...duty of every Harvard man to abstain from offering nostrums of his own for the avoidance of war. The President will avoid war if it can honorably be avoided. If it cannot honorably be avoided, war must come. It is the duty of Harvard men to line up ready for orders, not to take a vote as to the wisdom of those orders. If war must come, let us enter the war as a united nation, not as a divided nation after a bitter political struggle. Let every Harvard man frown on the suggestion that war be preceded...
...shall be so busy organizing and training the millions who will be willing to learn to fight for their country that we, unlike England today, can easily spare those who have honest convictions opposed to military service as well as those who will be willing to perjure themselves to avoid doing their duty...
...chief reliance on military force in a way to breed the very conditions that will create hostile coalitions against which there can be no adequate defence, we should strive toward the realization of the longing of the war-sick nations of Europe for a new and rational order, and avoid a policy calculated to frustrate completely the hope of a permanent reconstruction of international relationships. K. G. DARLING...
...only a very small number of men in the Junior Class, and of those whose last year in college will be 1917-18, have applied for rooms in Hollis, Holworthy, Matthews, Stoughton and Thayer, so that in order to avoid confusion at the last minute applications should be made at once. Those unable to see the committee during its regular office hours may obtain information from the chairman, H. Robb '18, Claverly...
Granting freedom to the Philippines, helping China stand on her own economic legs and an honorable solution of the immigration question, were cited as three steps the United States must soon take to avoid a clash with Japan, by Gardner L. Harding '10, at a largely-attended meeting of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society at the Hotel Westminster Saturday evening. The subject of his address was "Must We Fight Japan?" He said...