Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...avoid "unexpected" explosions, the Czar has ordered that only wood be used in the palace for fuel...
...sends us items of the inter-collegiate interest. We collect these items, and each week send a printed bulletin to all colleges which furnish items. We propose this plan because we believe it practicable. Several Eastern college journals have tried to organize such an association and have failed. To avoid failure we offer to do all the work. We would also suggest the advisability of holding a convention of college editors at Indianapolis next May, during the inter-state contest in oratory...
...supplies to all students who work in laboratories, and abolish a few unimportant courses of instruction, the loss of which, they believe, will not be seriously felt. They see some reason to believe, moreover, that the number of students will next year increase. It will, however, be impossible to avoid a large deficit for the current year...
...such an easy subject, and the instruction is so unpopular, that if anticipation were allowed as freely as the Regulations intend, the number on the rolls of the Rhetoric sections would fall to as low a figure as the actual attendance on the course counts at present. When, to avoid this, after having the passing mark raised from 40 to 70 per cent, an instructor deliberately tells a man with whom he is entirely unacquainted, that he should advise him not to take the anticipatory examination, it is bad enough; but when after forty men have attempted the examination...
...There has been some misunderstanding about one or two items in yesterday's issue which we forget to credit to the News. To avoid all future mistakes, we wish it distinctly understood that hereafter when we print any item not taken from the News we will distinctly...