Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's worst freshman wrestling team ever hopes to avoid a losing season by beating Yale this Saturday in New Haven. The Crimson takes a dismal 3-4-1 record into the contest, while the toothless Bullpups have not won a match in six tries...
...Being a journal of record is the quickest road to not being read," Bethell notes, "and we can't afford that. We try, for instance, to avoid a glut of alumni notes. They get readers to subscribe, but they can fill half the magazine unless you weed out the trivia. We tend not to print the 'I-ran-into-Charlie-the-other-day-in-the-men's-room-of-Grand-Central-Station' variety...
...Central Intelligence Agency has cancelled a two-day recruiting drive at Harvard, apparently to avoid student protest...
...says, "to render educational assistance on problems from nine months to nine years away to public services." Neustadt emphasized, however, that the Institute would not accept any government contract work, and would take on problems in the study groups that interested its members. In other words, the Institute would avoid the position of acting at the government's behest...
...Institute, however, this seems to avoid a central issue. A substantial portion of the Harvard community simply desires to confront policy-oriented problems. Many feel that the intellectual challenge of confronting issues in this realm is every bit as stimulating as devoting time to pure scholarship. Besides, there are few, if any, members of the Institute who plan to divorce themselves from pure scholarship--they merely want to vary their activities to achieve the maximum intellectual satisfaction...