Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...vote of the faculty the class of 1904 will be the last to have a valedictorian and salutatorian. The reasons given for this change are that under the present elective system considerable risk of injustice is involved, and also that it seems desirable to avoid the element of rivalry and hard feeling which has sometimes marked the struggle for first place...
Following are the assignments to squads. It is absolutely necessary that all men report exactly on time, in order to avoid interference with succeeding squads...
...concluding portion of his report, the President briefly explains the financial policy of the Corporation. That policy is to spend every year all available resources. To avoid deficits invariably would mean to aim deliberately at an annual surplus, and to keep sufficient reserves to guarantee that annual surplus. This cautious policy, which is appropriate to an industrial or commercial establishment, the President and Fellows think not to be best in an educational and charitable institution. Accordingly they believe that the University should be conducted as a grow- ing, changing, expanding organization, losing here, but gaining there, and always turning...
Your editorial in this morning's CRIMSON suggests a "clearing-house" for dates of lectures and addresses in order to avoid conflicts. It should be more widely known than it evidently is that such a clearing-house has been in existence for several years, and that an official engagement book is kept in the Recorder's office. Should all those interested in arranging the dates of lectures and entertainments consult this book in advance doubtless some conflicts would be avoided; but such is the diversity of interests at Harvard that it is not always undesirable to have several of these...
...recognize its own spirit of great individuality in these objects of plastic art. He compared the Germanic with the Classic spirit in art. Bacon expressed the Germanic spirit when he wrote "there is no excellent beauty without some strangeness in the proportion." The Mediterranean spirit has always sought to avoid strangeness, and there by its works are so communicable and urbane. In spite of this we may believe the Germanic spirit to be more fruitful. It is less abstract, it preserves more shades of truth, and its works are superior in lovability, for love feeds on the details of individuality...