Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ginnastica, call at J. F. Noera's and examine his 28 different colors of Jerseys, Tights, Skull Caps, Sweaters, etc. He can show you more variety, better quality, and later novelties in gymnasium goods than any other store. His advice is, save your money and avoid fancy prices when you can get the same article for 30 per cent. less at 436 Harvard street...
...Finally, avoid unnecessary promenading. Limit yourselves to your beats as we are limited to our seats, and depend more on vigilance of eye than on pedestrian awfulness. Do not continually pass between us and the windows; and please, please, sweet proctors, hang over our shoulders as little as possible. Don't stand, like the Devil, behind our backs, but pose in the foreground that we may be constantly encouraged by your inspiring presence...
...prime importance. Cleanliness and sleep are too well known as requirements of good health to need much comment. We want to make ourselves sound in wind and limb, in heart and brain. We are all glad to be freed from aches or pains; how much better if we avoid some portion of them. The desire to avoid pain is one of our first acquisitions. For the most part this avoidance is most marked when the effect follows speedily on the cause. When there is considerable lapse of time between cause and effect, our perception of the result...
...however, be pardoned for once more touching upon it ourselves. All the writers on Anglomania seem to agree on one point, namely, that they want a true patriotism among American students. But their ideas as to methods for securing this seem to differ widely. One faction would have us avoid all following after English ways; the other faction protests against such a "narrowing down of our models," and urges us to be Englishmen if we think Englishmen superior to Americans. This apparent contradiction is rather a difference than a contradiction, and the difference results from different interpretations of what anglomania...
...while we say a word in favor of the claims of the Boat Club, we would warn the managers to avoid all appearance even of extravagance, which in former years has given rise to much adverse criticism among college men, and which is the true reason why men do not respond more liberally to appeals for subscriptions...