Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Houses will bring a much larger number of men under one roof than there are in the usual Harvard dormitory, and every effort must be made to avoid the atmosphere of regularity and regimentation which is common under such conditions and reaches its height in the army barracks. This can only be done by spending much time and money in the arrangement of the furnishing. The House Masters have recognized this fact, but the economies and conveniences of management to be derived from having all-the furniture of a set pattern, as is the case in the Freshman dormitories, form...
...Francisco one Edward Hiebel was sued for $20,500 damages by Mrs. Alvena Marchant because he dropped telephone slugs down her back and she broke her leg in trying to avoid...
There was obviously no malice in the Lampoon's sally with an old tradition, and the editors of that organization did what they so often have neglected to do and took precautions to avoid even the appearance of evil. Immediately upon receipt of the fence they solemnly swore before the law that they intended to return the relic and so placed its seizure legally in the category of "prank". Few can cavil with the law's definition of the point and even fewer can avoid admitting that as a prank it was more than magnificent...
...Take it From Me," one must give all columnists "An Even Break." Whether you are "In Broken Fields" or not, travelling "Down the Line" invariably brings you to "Lining Them Up." But whoever has been courageous enough to get this far cannot avoid that bottom-of-the-column feeling...
...this, a building as large as the proposed chapel would occupy much of one of the last open spaces in the already well filled Yard. With unit number two of the houses obliterating one of the few grass plots remaining in this section of Cambridge, the college, authorities should avoid rather than project a crowded building plan...