Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chooses the wiser method of teaching those things the multitude can hear, he may sustain himself without resort to the tender mercies of trustees, presidents; and bursars. His earnings may, indeed, be sufficient to lift him above the feelings of indigence so destructive to free thinking. He may avoid commencement oration, Phi Beta Kappa addresses, the conferring of honorary degrees faculty meetings, examinations, and pestiferous students. No Carnegie pension lulls him into cheap security and carries him gently downward to the serene futility of a retired Indian civil servant. He can teach in the great forum of the wide world...
...most important link in the British chain of dominions, and they would therefore govern their policy so as the prevent India from breaking away. In other words, English foreign policy would be controlled by India. For this reason, England will not give home-rule if she can avoid dogie so, and will fight bitterly all Indian attempts to gain it. At last, the day will come when India will rise as one man, overthrow the British domination, and set up a United States of India, with a republican government. That day will bring success to the cause of the India...
...think it, the evidence will be in the fact that selfish national interests were to some degree sublimated. So to hear that Germany is trying to minimize her reparations bill; that France wants to exact an unreasonable sum for Germany and Russia; that the Soviet is attempting to avoid payment of debts and at the same time secure recognition and a large loan; that England and Italy are pursuing a moderate course because it favors their economic interests--to hear this from Mr. Vanderlip and other reporters is to hear the expected...
...York College also has arraigned the traditional courses, seeking to avoid the present custom which makes the first and even second years of college mere continuations of preparatory school. In place of "courses of elementary grade" it requests broader subjects whose purpose is to "orient the student in adult thought." A course in the History of Mankind which should show his environment; a course in Human biology and psychology; a third in mathematical analysis; Literature taught as an aspect of life, and the inevitable technique of expression; such is the suggested plan for Freshmen...
However, Mr. Hearst's warm friends and admirers have assured him that he is the man of the hour and that he can count on them to create an issue if necessary to make him popular. Thus reassured, the "people's choice" has retired, to avoid influencing anybody in any way. This natural shrinking from publicity is strangely reminiscent of that memorial of his generosity--the vast Greek stadium given to a university in California. On the inside of this, in letters of green three feet high, it is said, is the inscription: "Given by William Randolph Hearst...