Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Question: "Resolved that the immediate cessage of the coinage of the silver dollars is necessary in order to avoid disastrous results to the monetary system of the United States...
...attention to the complaints which have been heard from Cambridge people because crew men are in the habit of taking their afternoon runs in other streets than North avenue. It has always been the custom for the crews to run on North avenue, and Cambridge people, knowing this, can avoid encountering the men if they wish. But it cannot be very pleasant for these long-suffering people to have some fifteen or twenty men come thundering along behind them on any of the other streets of Cambridge; especially as it is now the fashion to wear strictly gymnasium costumes regardless...
DEBATE OF DECEMBER 21, 1887.Subject: "Resolved, that the immediate cessation of the coinage of the silver dollar is necessary in order to avoid disastrous results to the monetary system of the United States...
Question: "Resolved that the immediate cessage of the coinage of the silver dollars is necessary in order to avoid disastrous results to the monetary system of the United States...
...This is a sentiment which must commend itself to all earnest, thinking men. It is undoubtedly the true way to look at athletics; and to reach this result, Mr. Wendell contends, the athlete must begin with a thorough respect for and appreciation of his sport; and he must especially avoid all tricks and underhand practices. That part of the article which relates to the college faculty and to "professionalism" is especially worthy of study, inasmuch as there has been so much discussion on the subject at Harvard of late years. In the first place, the writer takes the ground that...