Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Club of Boston last night laid the cornerstone of its new home on Commonwealth avenue, just west of Massachusetts avenue. The club members marched from the Somerset Hotel to the site of the new building, where, avoid torch lights and the strains of "Fair Harvard," they put in place the first stone of their new structure...
...than in service before the courts. It is commonly the junior members of large legal firms who argue cases in court. The passing of the judge, the disappearance of the great court-room advocates, the popular distrust of courts, and the disposition of rich business men and corporations to avoid litigation and "beat the law" so far as they safely can, and even farther have constituted a vicious circle of evil tendencies in both theory and practice, the effects of which on public opinion in the United States have been plain, widespread and deeply to be deplored...
...avoid confusion in the triangular university debate, the managers at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are making a small change in the subject. They will eliminate the words "in desiring," leaving the subject, "Resolved, That the present attitude of the United States Government in exempting our coastwise trade from Panama Canal tolls is justifiable...
...which is too small to warrant a general publisher in undertaking them. The Loeb classical library is an excellent example of what a university might have done if a banker had not anticipated. But there are plenty of enterprises of the same general nature, and by co-operating to avoid wasteful duplication the great American universities might do much to strengthen our literature on a side where it is now weak. There are many valuable books, the publication of which would almost repay the cost, but not quite. An endowment could hardly be used more advantageously than in meeting this...
...effectively performed that these two blanks be filled out and returned at the earliest opportunity. In the past class Secretaries have been seriously handicapped because of thoughtless and unnecessary delay on the part of certain of their classmates in complying with this request. It is in order to avoid a similar experience that the Class Committee is making this early appeal. Only the hearty co-operation of the entire class in this matter will make it possible for the officers to do their work successfully...