Word: shun
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Europe, having served as Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil in Venezuela, Peru, Belgium, and in Sweden, and occupied other important offices. He is also familiar with the United States, where he lectured in the winter of 1912-13; and he speaks English perfectly so that no one need shun his classes from any fear of the barrier of language...
...details of instruction available for graduate students. Thus the doctor in active pracice can learn just where and when he can acquire the latest knowledge in any branch of his profession, and by using the other coupons to avail himself of the opportunities presented, he can shun the dangers of "falling behind the times...
...Freshman class in the Union last evening, introducing as first speaker, Professor R. B. Merriman '96. Professor Merriman reminded the men of the great differences and conflicting personalities that must exist in a university as large and as cosmopolitan as Harvard and warned the 1917 men not to "shun or look askance at some one else because that someone else happens to be different from yourself and don't be deceived by momentary greatness for the race is a long one and those leading now may not be in sight at the finish." Without needless eccentricity, cultivate your own individuality...
...farther than he can his own honor and future pleasure. But we venture to say that to almost every Senior the crime of speculation begets a penalty awful enough to keep him from it whatever may be his moral inclination. New Harvard men should take this to heart and shun the speculator who comes out from town with his pockets lined with gold. Once blacklisted, all the gold in the world cannot get them tickets to Harvard games again, and no amount of repentance can return to-them their honor in the eyes of loyal Harvard...
...term service in the navy. In both the navy and army there is need of a large Reserve, and of educated men in the service in order that there may be competent men prepared to act as officers in the Reserve in case of war. College men now generally shun both the army and navy, even when they have a longing for military experience, because they dread a four-year term. The need of a special short term of enlistment for college men was pointed out by Major General Leonard Wood in his lecture on the army in the Union...