Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON, before attacking the Athletic Association, had really made a study of this wonderful organization and had seen how keenly and carefully it plans for the welfare of every Harvard man, the amount of time and energy given by Mr. Moore and his assistants to avoid mistakes and bad guesses, it is fairly certain that the recent editorial would never have been written. Of course the CRIMSON had the second guess and, like the fellow in Haughton's book who sits complacently in the stands after a play has failed to work, yells "Punk Judgment...
Realizing perfectly well that many men take German A only because they are obliged to do so, certain members of the department even take special pains to avoid injuring the feelings of their students. In the face of discouraging facts the instructors struggle to arouse the interest of their classes, and, strange to say, they are unbelievably successful. As proof of his assertion that the department is openly hostile, Mr. Gambet cites the placard announcing the first meeting of the course. If Mr. Gambet or anyone else can construe that simple warning as an instance of the uncompromising attitude...
...difficulty involved in this schedule was the question of cutting classes before or after the Thanksgiving holiday upon which the Haverford game is to be played. In order to avoid this the team will leave for Philadelphia after the last class Wednesday; will play on Thursday, and return to college in time for nine o'clock classes on Friday, and will then return to Philadelphia Friday night and play their second opponents the next...
...exhaustive investigation which has been carried on over a period of several years by the medical schools of Harvard, the University of California and Stanford University in cooperation with the United States Public Health Service has brought to light the fact that it is possible to avoid the food poisoning known as botulism by a proper amount of heating...
...Take heed to avoid all those Games and Sports that are apt to take up much of thy time, or engage thy affections. He that spends all his life in Sports, is like one who wears nothing but fringes, and eats nothing but sauces." Such was Thomas Fuller's comment, a little less than three hundred years...