Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...previous letters. These were clearly refuted in the last Harvard letter sent to New Haven and published in the CRIMSON of May 6. As matters now stand there is little probability of settling the championship this season if the two scheduled games result as they generally do. To avoid this Harvard has exhausted every means now at her disposal, except the one of giving in completely to Yale's unreasonable demand. There the question rests for the present, if not permanently...
...withstanding our conviction of the reasonableness of our position since it does not commend itself to you, and since you must desire as strongly as we do to avoid the fruitless outcome of last year's games, we propose to you to refer the decision as between your plan and ours to two graduates, one from Harvard, to be chosen by us, and one from Harvard, to be named by you. In case the two graduates so chosen cannot agree, they shall choose a third person, not a graduate of either University, to act with them, and the decision...
...what is all the discussion about? Why is it important? We take it for granted that Yale will agree in saying that it is to avoid a repetition of last year's experience, a season ended with each team even in honors and their comparative merits not fully tested. There is no satisfaction in such a state of affairs. It is opposed to the idea of athletics; it is something which every true lover of manly sports cannot brook. Thus far we suppose that Yale also agrees with us, for if not, she would be truly inconsistent with "Yale spirit...
...right to squander our four years away on courses that we take no interest in. The college man has more vacation than any other class, yet he idles away his time in doing fifty things besides his appointed tasks; a slight headache, a dry Professor; any thing to avoid a short hour in the recitation room. Men think they are wronged too if not allowed to go home before a vacation begins, if an examination strikes him hard, or if he is barred from a recitation on account of oversleep...
...again. Thus he would be conforming with the rhythm of life. Many men have no aim in life but are indifferent to all surroundings. In such a life a business would become a pleasure. Among the most disinteresting persons are those who seek nothing but pleasures; these then avoid the law; they become the most uncomfortable and most unhappy persons we know...