Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prompt adoption of this idea will immediately stop all wrangling; avoid party splits; and insure final settlement in the precise way the majority wants. Such a decision should please every loyal American...
...avoid these excesses, while retaining the admitted benefits of syndicalism, His Holiness appeared to favor a system of co-operation between Capital & Labor based upon local units, similar in scope to the medieval guilds. Syndicalism on a national scale he thought too great a concentration of "vehement power" (in such hands as Benito Mussolini's, not of course mentioned by name). A sufficient overseeing influence Pius XI discerned in "the blessing of God" and "the co-operation of all men of good will...
After partaking in the ceremony, representatives from England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Mexico, Rumania, and Jugoslavia went on a sight-seeing trip to avoid hearing a judge from Palmyra, N. Y. read for three hours from a list of amendments to the order's constitution. One amendment was a prohibition of smoking during the mystic rites...
...impossible to imagine three more upright and sportsmanlike men than Professor Kennedy, Mr. Bingham, and Mr. Cates, but in their positions they necessarily represent a point of view which is not that of the undergraduates, for whom athletics are really intended. If three such leaders cannot avoid directing college sport into its present impasse, if they are unable to see eye to eye--and there is no good in pretending they are--may it not be time for a complete change in the administering of our collegiate sports? And may the solution not be to turn the problem over...
...fair amount of time and trouble to Freshman problems, not only making intelligent suggestions as to curriculum, but also discussing all sorts of outside activity. In this fashion, perhaps by monthly evening gatherings, the adviser would be in close touch with his advisees, helping them, if possible, to avoid scholastic and general difficulties. To accomplish this successfully, since most advisers are men engaged in graduate study, they should receive sufficient compensation for serving one of the greatest needs of first year students...