Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spirit of the law. If, for example, her players had been above reproach surely the manly and ultimately the least compromising course would have been for her to submit them to the oral examination and then to have urged the technicality, if she so chose. Her eagerness to avoid the oral examination, and the direct refusal of one of her players to submit to the same seems to us very much like a tacit confession of her own guilt. Had her protested players been above reproach they certainly would have had everything to gain and nothing to lose by their...
...Boston and Albany depot at 10 a. m. returning at 5.30 p. m. As the football grounds are only five minutes walk from the depot there will be no trouble about getting the return train after the game. The gates will probably be opened early and in order to avoid a rush men who hold grand stand tickets would do well to arrive early upon the field. Placards will be posted in conspicuous places near the gate to direct men to the sections reserved for Harvard and Yale. There has been a new arrangement of seats so that those...
...organization of the papers will perhaps result from this dinner, and a happy precedent will undoubtedly be established. Tonight the blue book for signatures will be taken from Leavitt and Peirce's, and be it said once more-let all intending to go, sign at once, so as to avoid all confusion and trouble at the very last moment...
...without contact with the floors, furnish firm support for the instruments. In the centre of the western wing there is a large rectangular tower, standing on an independent foundation, and isolated from the surrounding rooms; this tower is designed for investigations demanding extraordinary stability or great height. To avoid the influence of magnetism as much as possible, all pipes and nails in the western wing are made of brass...
...obtaining funds even from men well able to give. We can account for this indifference only in one way. Apparently the fact that Yale will send a veteran crew to New London this year, and that our own prospects are not of the brightest nature have influenced men to avoid as much as possible the very mention of the crew and matters connected with it. That this position is a false one to assume, every fair-minded man will grant. Winning or losing, the crew must have money to defray expenses; and it is mainly through subscription that this...