Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Major Wogan stated that he plans to build up two teams of almost equal skill, training enough god substitutes to avoid the situation of last year, when one man's inability to play put the University out of the running for the intercollegiate title...
This important step in enlarging the field of athletic relations, between the two colleges was taken with the understanding that these games were to be played on a home and home basis, with the dates scheduled for Fridays in order to avoid conflict with important first team games...
...intelligence.) "Ours must be a government of laws, net of men." "The executive and legislative branches of the government should be kept separate"; or, as it is sometimes expressed, "Checks and balances are essential safeguards of popular liberty." "No taxation without representation." "Self-determination and municipal home rule." "Avoid entangling alliances." "State rights." "The office should seek the man, not the man the office." (The office does seek the man sometimes, but not often-about as often as a burglar goes seeking a policeman.) "The rule of public opinion." "Political parties are groups of voters who think alike and have...
...sentimentalism to which we as a people are curiously inclined and which is conspicuously expressed by citizens whose education, position and worldly means give them an influence out of proportion to their deserts." George Washington's Farewell Message was recalled, with its well-known warning to avoid indulging habitual hatred or habitual fondness toward any nation. Hate no man, love no man, and no man can hurt your feelings...
This being a clean, wholesome, vigorous animal involves a good deal. It involves not condescending to the ordinary barbaric vices. One must avoid drunkenness, gluttony, licentiousness, and getting into dirt of any kind, in order to be a clean, wholesome, vigorous animal. Still, none of you would be content with this achievement as the total outcome of your lives. It is a happy thing to have in youth what are called animal spirits--a very descriptive phrase; but animal spirits do not last even in animals. They belong to the kitten or puppy stage. It is a wholesome thing...