Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forum will try to avoid consideration of the technical procedures of psychiatry and intends, instead to concentrate on the practical, every-day suspects of the subject...
...used in desultory fashion by members who drops in for a quick beer. On weekends they open their doors to the whole student body and throw punches, dances, drinking parties, and jazz concerts. During better football weekends they are usually jammed. Some, like the Fence Club, try to avoid too uncontrolled a stampede and limit entrants...
Paternalism is a smear word. Harvard doesn't pat its students on the head, doesn't outfit their play pens, doesn't sit down with them for fatherly advice. But a Yale student might mix an incisive metaphor and say this; in trying to avoid paternalism, Harvard leans over backwards so far that it falls flat on its face...
...third revision eliminates the complicated, unreliable system of nominating council candidates in open House meetings and establishes in its place the method of nominating representatives by petition. This improvement should avoid the confusion and irregularities which occurred last spring, causing widespread public disapproval...
Essentially, the difference between the two clubs is that the Harvard organization devotes itself to works of musical art and a limited concert tour; the Yales, Towever, avoid an overdose of the classical works, concentrate on the lighter numbers, and go on long concert tours that receive great applause both here and abroad. Also, Yale has a very expensive publicity program--contrary to the Crimson policy...