Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...aspect of affairs in their own country and in their own time. Or, if they have opinions on the subject, they are apt to be the astonishingly dogmatic and utterly impracticable evolutions of their own unaided and unpractised intellects. The natural consequence is, that, as a rule, they either avoid all connection with public affairs, or, after finding that their pet theories do not work, they retire in disgust, - for, after all, even graduates are only human, - and the government is far too often suffered to fall into utterly unworthy hands...
...admitted that philology, history, and geography are sometimes both interesting in themselves and helpful in discovering the author's ideas and opinions. Again and again words occur whose sense can only be fully shown by going through the successive steps by which they arrived at that sense; if you avoid such discussions, do you not leave an obscurity in your knowledge of the book you are reading? The charge that an exact knowledge of history and geography is useless is certainly most remarkably original; but it is easily overthrown by asking how much profit you would derive from reading King...
Fifteen seconds allowance for shells over laps in each race. There will be two stake-boats to avoid the chance of fouls...
...task is self-imposed; but few things can be more irksome than surplus work forced upon us for which we get no thanks, no credit, and which we have to do to make up past deficiencies. Any one moderately wise will be willing to do something in time to avoid this unpleasantness which they must certainly undergo in the future...
...advice and traditions they receive from their predecessors, and hence, if many of the Senior Class next year should neglect their recitations, no doubt they would experience the consequent evils, and the succeeding class would be so far benefited by their experience as to, in great measure, avoid their error...