Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Nobody, except seniors dressed for the scrimmage, will be admitted to the Tree without a ticket. Every senior who can is expected to take part. Seniors are requested to avoid any absurdity of dress and are urged to wear canvas jackets or other clothing which cannot be torn...
...starts for New London with a good record of progress behind it, and a month on the Thames should do wonders. On Monday Hollister will take his place on the crew at No. 4. He has been well for the past week and has not rowed, because advised to avoid the atmosphere of the Charles River. R. H. Stevenson will not row again this year...
...question is too often dismissed in this way merely to avoid the personal inconvenience which it is well known would follow upon a really fair decision. The strict application of theory to practice in the college world demands a disregard of one's temporary convenience which to many students would seem little less than brutal. An ideal is such a persistently determined affair that one shrinks from encountering it. When a man knows he is honorable, why expose himself to the unpleasant suggestion that he is not? The hint that his estimate of himself has been too high...
Davy, the Cambridge boat builder, is at work on a barge for the freshman crew, which he expects to have finished soon after the 15th. The barge is very much lighter and narrower than the boat the freshmen had last year, and it is hoped by this means to avoid the usual abrupt change when the crew begins to row in a racing shell...
...these there is a large number of new men all of whom have had experience on school and other college nines. Captain Whittemore addressed the men briefly. He said for the present the training would not be strict but each man ought to be careful of his health and avoid excesses of any kind. All candidates will meet every afternoon at the Carey Building at four o'clock. The exercise will consist of light dumbbell drill, sliding to base and batting, to be followed by a short...