Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This year, however, the committee of the Student Council have preferred plans for graduates' day which furnish opportunity to avoid such isolation. Faculty members, and representative undergraduates will set forth the present activities of the university...
...healing remedies of compromise and concession to alter unsatisfactory working conditions. The present oscillations of disorder are a direct result of failure to make use of this opportunity. IT indeed seems just to charge the greater proportion of the blame to the executives who were in a position to avoid the strike...
...report points out however, that there is inherent in the plan a serious danger that Harvard students may be reduced to a type by excluding "the unassimilables" too largely. "In securing the necessary limitation of enrolment, therefore, the great object to be striven for is to avoid all extremes and preserve a certain proportion between all more or less "unassailable" groups. There should not be more than ten per cent of the latter at the most...
...been bread-and-buttery, our adult education has been "pointed"-that is, missionary. Not that adult education should avoid controversial subjects; but it is not at its best when effecting even "Americanization...
...While the Kaiser was making frantic efforts to avoid the impending catastrophe, the German military leaders seeing that his efforts would be futile effected a speedy mobilization of the German forces. And then when hostilities had clearly gone beyond human control, they saw, that hemmed in on all sides as they were, their only chance for preservation lay in striking first...