Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...political liberty in France were of no avail against the ultra-conservatives and the Revolution followed. Even in the case of our Civil War, Henry Clay and other statesmen saw it was inevitable that slavery and freedom must conflict many years before the crisis came and they sought to avoid it. But revolution sits North and South opposed them and war followed...
...preparing the way for evolution there are some things to be avoided and considered. Avoid urging changes foreign to our habits, customs and thought. It will do harm. Recognize the value of the cultivation of righteousness and morality. Strive to secure progress toward a better and nobler future by processes evolutionary rather than revolutionary, by appeals to reason rather than to prejudice. Be true to yourself, your University and your country...
...DIBBLEE.C. L. S. ALUMNI DINNER.- The committee in charge of the annual dinner of the C. L. S. alumni wishes to remind all graduates of the school now in the University that the list for the dinner must be made up today. To avoid great inconvenience all men should send in their names immediately. As the dinner takes place the last day of the mid-years, every Cambridge man in College should be present. Notify C. A. McGrew, 71 Walker...
...exercises, they let it be understood that with these modifications they would have no objection to the ceremony about the Tree. After three weeks of diligent work, the committee drew up a plan which met every objection originally made by the Corporation. The flowers were to be lowered to avoid unnecessary roughness and to give every man an equal chance of getting flowers without the aid of cliques or squads, and a system of exits was devised by which the Tree enclosure might be emptied in four minutes, thus eliminating all danger from panic...
...Photographic Committee wishes to urge seniors who have not already sat for their photographs to do so before the mid-years, so as to avoid as much as possible the rush which is sure to come in February...