Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort to avoid such re-occurrence of Yard fires as that which demolished the first Harvard Hall, a fire alarm system has recently been established, consisting of automatic gongs and high powered searchlights in conspicuous places on the Freshman dormitories and lecture halls...
Yard Cops last night bagged 25 cars in the first of the annual hide-and-seek contests between the impecunious students seeking to avoid garage fees and the University henchmen, valiantly trying to keep people off the grass. Spokesmen for the University team announced with glee that they expected a much larger haul tonight and the CRIMSON has found out through its own devious sources that Cambridge police are already entering the game since the Yard Cops, chasing the student chariot off University property, makes it a cinch for local flatfoots to pick them up on municipal byways. This makes...
Republicans in the state of New York seem to find that the best way to avoid the claws of the Tammany Tiger is to indulge in squabbles among themselves. The setting is usually on Long Island and the action rages at the cocktail hour when polo is the chief rival in discussion. This time, however, the children have completely lost their temper and the action has been transferred from pillared terraces to the dank halls of Rochester where the Convention gets underway tomorrow...
...tram and dray Australia's citizens flocked to Australia's polls last week to elect a new Parliament. The large turnout did not mean an equally large interest in the election, but merely an effort to avoid the $10 fine imposed on Australians entitled to vote who fail...
...some such light will the man who has made a failure of College regard it in after years. To avoid this experience, he must realize that Harvard is "a Hell of a big country" and that a big country can be an impersonal one. After the cheering sentiments which will be drilled into 1938 continually during its first week here have died away, the Freshman Class will be face to face with this issue. The best weapon is initiative. While neither the Faculty nor the deans are alarming ogres, you must take the first step in opening relations with them...