Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order to avoid the difficulty which the Student Council has experienced in previous years in making donations to charitable institutions, a meeting of the Council last night voted that the president, treasurer, and graduate secretary of the Phillips Brooks House Association constitute an advisory committee to the Chairman of the Budget Committee. It was also voted to appoint Henry Chalfont '31 as a member of the Budget Committee...
Hard to Get (First National). Although this mild anecdote about a mannequin who tries to see life as her customers see it has been told before in various forms, it has been directed lightly enough to avoid being offensive and even at times to be funny. When a handsome fellow in a long shiny car picks up Dorothy Mackaill she tells him she lives on Fifth Avenue and gives him the number of a house that as inevitably happens in these cases turns out to be his own. Hard to Get does not rise to any heights of originality...
...year might lead to an unfortunate condition which exists at present in many colleges which gives the student who slumps once no chance to try again. Even the most infallible judge in a dean's office must realize that there are times when mistakes in judgment are impossible to avoid, and even when there is no mistake made in closing a student's connection with a college the whole future life of a person may be completely altered by such action. Such a realization has always been shown in University Hall and it is only unfortunate that there are still...
...Adams Jr., Harvard student, son of the Secretary of the Navy, was arrested for speeding at Old Saybrook, Conn. He did not mention in court his illustrious relationship. Fine: $1. Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, pugilist, driving his new Lancia racer at a terrific pace through Thuringia, steered to avoid an urchin, crashed into a building, climbed out of the wreck with minor flesh cuts...
...they will undoubtedly do so as long as people continue to go to college. Between meetings at the Union, and the Phillips Brooks House, conferences with faculty and student advisors, meals and discussions with other bewildered classmates, respectful conversations with upper classmen, the Freshman soon finds out enough to avoid singing up for five pressing contracts, and fills out a study card...