Word: eschew
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...opportunities that abound in Cambridge and Boston. It is time that at Harvard every man is free to "work out his own salvation" in his own way, and he must, obviously, be permitted to have full intellectual freedom. If art or opera bore him, it is his privilege to eschew them. No one gainsays that...
Germany drinks beer; Russia vodka; France absinthe; England ale. The obvious moral is--If you seek peace and prosperity eschew the demon rum! I do not seek to emulate Mrs. Nation--the eminently illustrious "Hatchet Carrie," nor am I an embryo Anthony Comstock. Yet I believe in total abstinence for college men. However, the question of total abstinence is not necessary for the present discussion. It is an undisputed fact that to countenance Hogarthian over-drinking at smokers and dinners is to create an undesirable impression on the outside world and particularly in the minds of parents and boys...
...that human pest called the insurance drummer? He stands around, enters Sever, and our very class-rooms in his impudence, he pounces on instructors and students, dreaded by all, a babbling symbol of the imminence of death. Can we not even in the privacy of our work-rooms eschew the cringing advances of this infernal nuisance? Is it not within the authority of our excellent "Yard Cops" to expel such individuals and deliver us, so that we may teach and learn in peace, or, if it is our pleasure, die in peace, uninsured? Sincerely yours, RUDOLPH ALTROCCHI...