Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...procession solely to preserve an old college custom, especial care should be taken to make our marching as free from political significance as possible. Many men, I think, would refuse to march, if they had to do so under any political transparencies. The simplest way to avoid any such trouble, is for the general committee to forbid strictly all political demonstrations in our battalion. This would avoid any split in our ranks...
...blunderingly ask advice of his secretary, of his nearest friend, of anybody who will give it. True, our meetings do not occur very frequently and students hate to bother about mere parliamentary tactics, as long as the business in hand is quickly accomplished. But for this very reason, to avoid parliamentary haggling and to expedite matters, the chairman should know the ABC of Cushing's or Roberts' manual. It cannot be urged that the offices are unexpectedly thrust upon men, for the principles of promotion have taken a strong hold of our college politics and they generally know when...
...disturbance was undoubtedly due to the upper class men, still, by far the greater part of the blame rests on the freshman class. The methods of wardroom politics cannot advantageously be introduced into class meetings, and we hope the incoming freshman classes may have the good sense to avoid all such foolishness...
...common interest so many of our centrifugal institutions of higher learning, would be unpractical as a permanent plan. When the utility of the school, as bringing life and sympathy into the study of antiquity, too often arid and dead under the parrot like methods of instruction hard to avoid entirely here a study indispensable to an adequate grasp of the significance of civilization and the scope of human intelligence-is brought before the public, it is desired and expected that some of our many munificent friends of learning will by endowment place it upon a permanent basis. With a fixed...
Seniors are requested to avoid any absurdity of dress at the exercises around the tree...