Word: shuns
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...acquaintance with the horrors which so many brave young men are experiencing in Europe will be no closer than in the descriptions of men who have lived through them. We may know that should the necessities of existence impel us to a course we abhor but do not shun, neither the fearfulness nor the tragedy of war will keep one true man back...
...that they failed completely to grasp the significance of the event. They lost one of the very few opportunities given them to show that they are alive and sensitive to the great agony of this war, which has escaped them and which they by their lethargic callousness choose to shun. Granted that the hour was most inappropriate, and that the service was badly advertised, the fact remains that scarcely 75 men were interested enough to come to a meeting of this kind at which the speakers were the President of the University and one of her most heroic graduates. Major...
...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...