Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contacts with athletes are made at schools by Harvard men; we have tended to lean over backward to avoid any appearance of proselyting. Occasionally, in compliance with a request from a school in the vicinity of Cambridge, we have sent a coach for the afternoon to give specialized instruction. This practice of lending coaches builds up friendly relations and should be encouraged...
...many details entailed in the report of the Student Council Committee on Education make it difficult to word questions to be answered by "yes" and "no" satisfactorily. The CRIMSON, therefore, in its two queries to the College Faculty and undergraduates, will endeavor to avoid the consideration of details which would have to be discussed before the suggestions of the committee could be adopted. The CRIMSON questionnaire will emphasize the phrase "in principle". The questions follow...
...Word omitted to avoid libel...
Seemingly much moved, the aged "Tiger of France" declared: "It was the express desire of my departed friend that I should speak here. My words will be few. M. Geffroy asked his friends to avoid vanity and worldly honors at his funeral...
...Earlier in the debate, reference was so frequently made to vulgar epithets that the ladies, tittering, became embarrassed. The Speaker ordered the language stricken from the record, and asked members to avoid the vulgar quotation...