Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...willing nature does influence us in our belief. But, remembering that in our dealings with nature we are not makers but recorders of truth, we should seek to avoid error and seek for truth. We must weigh reasons with an indifferent mind; for the best investigator is one who is impartial...
...seats for the concert will be held at the Prospect Union building, 744 Massachusetts avenue, tomorrow afternoon, from five to eight o'clock. The price of reserved seats is fifty cents. Applicants for tickets will be served according to the order in which their applications are made. To avoid trouble, students or officers of the University may leave applications at the CRIMSON office addressed to Henry G. Gray...
...dates of the matches in each section shall be arranged as soon as the drawings are announced. To avoid delay, therefore, it shall be the duty of couple number one in each section to communicate at once with numbers two, three and four regarding dates; number two with numbers three and four; number three with number four...
...university life is a better preparation for active life.- (a) The student's enthusiasm for his work is kept more fully alive by the elective system: Educational Review, VII, 313; VIII, 64.- (1) It allows him to pursue the branches in which he is interested.- (2) He can avoid branches disagreeable to him.- (3) The presence of graduate workers acts as a constant incentive to him.- (4) He is stimulated by more sympathetic intercourse with his instructors.- (b) It leads to "Emancipation of Thought"; Educational Review, IV, 366; VII, 313 fg.; Graduates' Magazine II, 468.- (1) It tends to break...
...certainly in the end produce war than to invite European aggressions on American states by abject surrender of our principles. By a combination of indifference on the part of most of our people, a spirit of eager servility toward England in another smaller portion, and a base desire to avoid the slightest financial loss even at the cost of the loss of national honor by yet another portion, we may be led into a course of action which will for the moment avoid trouble by the simple process of tame submission to wrong. If this is done it will surely...