Word: avoided
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Memorial Hall will open tomorrow morning for breakfast. To avoid confusion during the first few days every one will be assigned provisionally to some particular seat. As soon as the clubs which hold over from last year have filled up their members the assignment of tables to the new clubs will be made. The names of the successful applicants for admission to the association are now posted in the auditor's office at the hall...
...termed the friends of the persons who gave them. Unless the request is lived up to, the danger of an objectionable class gaining admittance to the Yard is very great. Every man who has the interest of Class Day at heart will do what he can to avoid this danger, by a judicious distribution of his tickets...
Seniors are requested to avoid any absurdity of dress at the exercises around the Tree, and are urged to wear canvas jackets or other clothing which cannot be torn...
...Harvard has educational advantages which cannot be found elsewhere. Yet the practical objections to the adoption of this ideal justice are great, and few would care to meet them. The growth of Radcliffe along the lines which it is taking promises a happy solution of the difficulty; it will avoid awkward arrangements and yet will open to women practically all the advantages open to men at Harvard. Organized on the same plan, offering largely the same courses, taught largely by the same corps of instructors, it will make any call for co-education in Harvard unnecessary. The relations...
...emphasize faith in our religion and neglect works. The most discouraging part of the controversies on church questions is the magnifying of unessential things. If we would observe the true proportion of things as their natural relation suggests instead of following our own hasty impulses and opinions, we should avoid a great deal of worry and trouble. The thing for us to do is to place ourselves, or seek to be placed, at some central point of view from which we can get the true perspective of the relations of life; and this we believe to be the hand...