Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...leaders of cheering will report at 11.30 this morning for lunch at the Cage on Soldiers Field. To avoid difficulty each leader will call at once at Reed & Welch's for his own special flag. The following is the final list of leaders:--Wendell, Willis, Bullard, Brownell, Wadsworth, E. Lewis, Ladd, C. Frothingham, Jr., Platt, W. M. Wood, Winsor, Movius, Stillman, C. T. Richardson, E. E. Smith, Morris, Gregg, Goodell, Lang, Clarkson, L. Wehle, Welch, L. Clark, Converse, H. S. Knowles...
Over three hundred ushers have been appointed and positions have been as signed to each one. In order to avoid confusion every usher must present himself...
...game with Columbia showed the effectiveness of this policy and marked the beginning of the development of team play. This development has since been retarded considerably by the injuries to the players. Furthermore the policy of the coaches has been to avoid the unfortunate experience of last year, and bring the team to its highest state of development at the time of the Yale game and not before the game with Pennsylvania...
...jokes and stories, the shorter pieces are the best, with perhaps one exception in favor of "Sherlock Holmes in Cambridge." The latter stays closely enough by its model to avoid too much exaggeration, and succeeds in being decidedly absurd. Nearly all the jokes are pointed; and they, like the longer stories, deal mostly with College affairs--a feature acceptable enough if not overdone. In many cases an episode relies for much of its humor on familiar connection with undergraduate life; but in many more, this connection is assumed to furnish amusement unassisted. The "Specimen Conference" in History 1 fails...
...want to be men of reality in our conversation. Flattery, deceit and slander are evidences of unreality in our speech. As we would avoid these in our talk, so we should fight for sincerity in our minds, and let soundness and genuineness occupy our thoughts. We should be real in dealing with our doubts; inconclusive thinking leads to agnosticism. We should be men of reality in dealing with our temptations; temptation is not sin, but it is sin to yield. Finally, we should be men of reality in our efforts to build up character and faith and to extend Christianity...