Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Last year Bowdoin proved unexpectedly strong and at the end of the first half led in the storing by 6 points to 5; only the hardest kind of work in the second half enabled the University team to avoid defeat, the final score being Harvard 17, Bowdoin 6. As the Bowdoin team includes several of last year's players, a hard game is expected today...
...order to avoid confusion, it is particularly requested that the north door of Memorial Hall be used by those arriving in carriages and that the south door be used by pedestrians...
...Democracy." Mr. guild began his address by speaking of the great privilege American citizenship conveys at this particular time. The country has nothing to fear from without. Its only danger is from within. The citizens of this country who are indifferent to politics, who shun public duties, who avoid the stress of elections, are the modern traitors, as dangerous and evil as the traitors of history. The country needs strong young men who will give richly of their money, their time and their strength. The dangers of a democracy are of little account when such men rally to the support...
William Scollay Whitwell '03, left Cambridge on the night of Thursday, February 26, and has not been definitely heard of since. He wrote a note saying that he was under a temporary fit of mental delusion and, to avoid being a drag on his family and friends, he would commit suicide by jumping off the Fall river boat. The note was received in Cambridge the next day. Thee porter and the newsboy on the boat, however, state that they saw him get off the boat on Friday morning and the baggage agent on the wharf asserts to have seen...
Several improvements have been made in the series. Two diamonds on Soldiers Field will be used, and a mask and a protector will be provided for each game. To avoid confusion no one will be allowed to play on two teams. Careful attention will be paid to the selection of teams from men who sign as individuals...