Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Athletic Committee has lost its best member by re-organization. It is doubtful whether anyone knows more about the workings of our athletics than Professor White. Nor has anyone worked harder to keep them clean, and at the same time avoid unnecessary and petty restrictions. In short we dislike to lose a man of Professor White's calibre, especially when the reasons for his disqualification are supported neither by precedent nor logic...
...clock. The Freshmen caught the water first and began rowing a 32 stroke to Springfield's 34. They gained slightly, but at the quarter-mile Springfield, was drawing ahead. At the Harvard bridge the Freshman coxswain had to steer so close to the other shell to avoid, a raft that Jose at 2 in the Harvard boat struck his oar against that of Hicks, Springfield's number 7, and caught a slight crab. From this point the superiority of the Springfield crew was apparent, and they finished well together, with a strong spurt...
...well to remind Seniors and underclassmen of the conditions upon which Class Day tickets are sold and thus avoid the disagreeable misunderstandings which have occurred in other years. Class Day is an occasion for Harvard men and their friends and the promise--which every purchaser of tickets is required to sign--not to sell or give tickets as fees should be observed in the same literal manner in which it is intended. Although we believe that most of the tickets which have been found in the hands of speculators and other undesirable persons in former years went astray through carelessness...
...thirty-second annual intercollegiate meet will be held in the Stadium on Friday and Saturday afternoons, May 31 and June 1, at 3 o'clock. As the Cornell baseball game also comes on June 1 it will be played at 1.30 o'clock to avoid conflict with the track games. The preliminary trials for all races except the mile and two-mile runs will be held Friday afternoon to reduce the number of competitors for the semi-finals and finals on Saturday. Trials in the half-mile will be held at the discretion of the referee...
...order to avoid the confusion incident to voting for officers and directors on the same day, the election of directors has been postponed until tomorrow...