Word: avoided
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...under stronger incentive than one goes in, and this additional danger from those deadly doors is enough to discourage all attendance within the portals of University. The College might, at a trifling expense, put glass into the doors, and thus give a man at least a chance to avoid being knocked down before he enters the recitation-room. Another danger which awaits the unfortunate who must enter University descends from above. We refer to the masses of ice and snow which, in ordinary winters, drop from the roof on to the steps, - masses heavy enough to crush the skulls...
...Fall Races take place at two o'clock tomorrow, over the Union course. Efforts will be made to avoid all delays, and probably it will be easy for the same person to see the races and match between Yale and Tufts. Besides the usual prizes of goblets and mugs for the members of the winning crews in both races, the Graduates' Cup is to be rowed for by the sixes. This cup is now on exhibition in one of the windows under Holyoke House. The names of the victorious six will be handed down to posterity on the parchment which...
...food has been quite good, and by the new system of extras the Directors have made it possible for each member to better it. There is no question, however, but that the fare did degenerate during the last month. The Directors should have taken particular pains to avoid this, for upon the reputation of the Association at the close of this year depends very much its success at the beginning of the next. The Directors who shall be elected in the fall must be vigilant, and see that the board is good at the beginning, and also that it remains...
...from the race with Yale has been too well shown to be questioned; and from the interest in that race all other races, such as this one with Columbia, will seriously detract. Too much caution cannot be taken to keep the Yale race distinct from all others, and to avoid everything which will lessen its importance. Therefore, while we are glad that Columbia and Harvard are to meet on the water again this year, we must say we hope it will be for the last time, whatever the result; and we would earnestly deprecate anything which shall hereafter encroach upon...
...take part in the most important college contests of the year; and in no year has such intense interest been centred on these contests as in this. Therefore would we remind our representative athletes of this generally adopted rule, and would earnestly request them, in their great matches, to avoid everything which can interfere with their duty, even indirectly, and to leave the betting to those whose increased anxiety is sure not to affect the results...