Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Yale Dining Association are allowed to smoke at will in the hall, in which the air, despite the fact, remains clear and fresh. Certainly it is not necessary for the attractiveness and prosperity of our hall to be impaired by any antediluvian prejudices. If the Corporation would avoid the necessity of a guaranteed, let them amend this damaging...
...terms of affiliation comprise a mutual agreement between the two institutions to avoid all rivalry, competition, and needless duplication of courses, and to combine the resources of instruction in an economical, harmonious and comprehensive scheme of theological education. It is intended to maintain the organization of the Seminary without change and the Faculty will be appointed as hitherto by the Trustees. The officers and students of both Universities will have the use and enjoyment on equal terms of libraries, museums, and similar privileges, maintained or offered by either institution...
...battery candidates for the University and Freshman teams, who were called out two weeks ago in order to limber up and to avoid sore arms, will continue to report at the usual hours every afternoon. The pitchers will use only straight balls this week, but should be able to show a slight increase of speed...
...smokers, and a hundred other things of greater or less importance, it has been customary in many cases to call upon the committee chairman for a detailed report of the work involved. The following year the committee is thus enabled to profit by the experience of its predecessors, to avoid their mistakes and improve upon their suggestions. But only too often, when the actual work of the committee is over, the chairman either neglects this duty altogether, or draws up his report long after he has forgotten all the finer points that his experience has taught. Reports of the more...
Early in November the Crimson offered a suggestion that a general memorandum book be kept in the office of the Union, in which men who are arranging functions of more or less importance might enter dates and thus avoid unnecessary conflicts of engagements. Such a book was accordingly started with the consent of the Union authorities, but so far the scheme has met with no support. As was pointed out at the time, the value of the book depends entirely upon the spirit with which it is used. Its present incompleteness renders it absolutely worthless. We still believe that...