Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...order to avoid certain difficulties in the administration of the rule granting to Undergraduates a preference in the assignment of rooms in the College Yard, the special preference given to Seniors in Harvard College and to students of equivalent rank in the Scientific School will be granted to students who are qualified as below...
Geronte finds that he has been deceived by Dorante in regard to that supposed marriage of his. The indignant father asks his son to explain and hears from him that he had made up this story to avoid being married to Clarice, as he is in love with Lucrece. Dorante goes to Clarice whom he still believes to be Lucrece and assures her that he has nothing but contempt for Clarice. Just then he is warned, by a word in the conversation, of the mistake he has constantly been making of taking Clarice for Lucrece and skilfully explains his actions...
...vacant positions was unpromising, under-weighted and of a decidedly unaggressive nature. A temporary team was formed, which has, with allowance for the usual number of changes, come through the season in not greatly altered form. In many of the preliminary games the team had hard struggles to avoid defeat, and it was only through the inability of the opposing elevens to keep up the strain imposed upon them by the superior weight of the Harvard team that such disastrous results were not encountered in more than one instance. Last Saturday, a lack of team-play all but ended...
...game immediately took on a new aspect, and from being regarded as a sure victory for Harvard it was seen that a defeat would be exceedingly hard to avoid. This impression was strengthened a moment after the next kick-off, when the Dartmouth backs again began their fierce attack. Aided by penalties and a 25 yards run by Vaughan, they carried the ball down to Harvard's 25-yard line before they met with any show of resistance. Bowditch broke up a play around his end and the subsequent loss enabled Harvard to obtain the ball on downs. Kernan fumbled...
...enough to take away any pleasure which might have been derived from watching the play. Not only did Bowdoin score, but at the end of the first half had a lead of 6 points to 5; and the hardest kind of work was required of the Harvard team to avoid defeat. Fumbling was the cause of most of Harvard's difficulties, as it was on this account that the team once failed to make a touchdown and at the same time allowed Bowdoin to score. The fact that the Bowdoin eleven had good control over the hall points...