Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...object of the date-book, as distinguished from the calendar in the CRIMSON, is to avoid conflicts. Many minor conflicts, and several large ones, have already been avoided. However, the committee believed that the real cause of many conflicts was due to the superabundance of 8 o'clock meetings and the lack of regular days for serial lectures. Mr. Whiting's concerts have been changed from Tuesday to Thursday evenings, to make Thursday a musical evening--with these and the Symphony concerts and Union pop-nights--and to leave the Union free right to Tuesday evening. Lectures held...
Each afternoon the first two courts on Jarvis Field will be reserved for trial. To avoid confusion, a blue-book has been placed in Leavitt & Peirce's in which men should sign before noon the time at which them wish to play that afternoon...
...second places in each event will receive cups, which they should obtain from W. B. Marsh '13, at the field. All competitors are requested to report at the Locker Building promptly at 2 o'clock and to be ready for their events before the scheduled time in order to avoid any unnecessary delay. Absolutely no events will be delayed for late competitors...
...advantage. The length has been variously estimated between one and three-quarters and one and seven-eighths miles. For this reason the time taken during trials by the crews has been so inaccurate that it has been impossible to judge their speed as compared with outside crews. To avoid possible mistakes in the future, an accurate survey has been found necessary...
...purposely avoid a defence of the CRIMSON'S policies and methods. What is objectionable in the Monthly's attack is its wholesale and biased attitude of muckrake. For instance, we are told editorially that the "English of its stories ... is lax, incorrect, even worse than that of the average daily paper." Although the work is entirely done by untrained undergraduates it is fair to say that its print is clearer, its grammar purer, and its typographical mistakes fewer, than that of almost any daily paper in the country. Indeed through the whole series of Monthly articles...