Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there is one pitfall that we hope our old friend and rival will avoid, though in regard to the undergraduate feeling we have no fear, - there exists, we are compelled to believe, among American colleges, a fear of being suspected of desiring to imitate other colleges. Especially is this true with regard to the attitude assumed towards Harvard. This must always be the feeling towards all innovators, - and Harvard has certainly introduced many innovations of late years into her collegiate life. Therefore, while deprecating such a feeling toward us, we should like to point at one as a possible danger...
...universities, which should be apparent to the university authorities from their own point of view. Their purpose is to maintain a religious interest in those who are professing Christians or who are inclined to become Christians, and to excite such an interest in those who are inclined to avoid religious influences. What effect does compulsion have upon the several classes of persons to whom it is applied? Does it not work more harm than good? So far as members of the church are concerned the effect of compulsion may be disregarded, although it is said that even among these...
...plans of the Edison Company have been approved by the corporation, and the main trouble just now is as to where the dynamo can be placed with most advantage. It is necessary to avoid the noise which it would make, were it placed in the cellar of Gore Hall, and the expense of laying the wires will be increased by just so much for every yard the dynamo is distant from the building it is intended to supply. But this is a question which it will take but a very few days to settle...
...interesting on the whole. In the "Wanderings of Alexis" an interesting story is told in concise and brilliant style. An intensely realistic picture is given in language suited to the subject, but it is questionable whether this nervous style should not be at times modified in order to avoid monotony. "Otto III" is a powerful piece of historical description. "In a Theatre," is the name of one of the brightest sketches that has appeared in the Advocate for a long time. A more clever description of the scenes at the theatre, or a more acute and amusing delineation...
...tracing the river from its entrance into the immortal city to the point where it plows out into the surrounding campagna. The inexcusable act of some one of the audience in disturbing the lecture cannot be too greatly deplored or too severely condemned. Some step should be taken to avoid such disgraceful occurrences...