Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Nobody, except Seniors dressed for the scrimmage, will be admitted to the Tree without a ticket. Every Senior who can is expected to take part. Seniors are requested to avoid any absurdity of dress and are urged to wear canvas jackets or other clothing which cannot be torn...
Although the plan of wearing uniforms in the parade of June 3 has been definitely given up, we should, at least, endeavor to avoid that irregular appearance which a crowd of students, attired in all sorts of costumes, from golf suits to cutaways, would produce. An effect of regularity may be produced without any extra expense if each student taking part in the parade will wear white ducks, and a straw hat with his class ribbon. I believe that this impromptu uniform is as comfortable and convenient as any that could be devised, and I have already heard a considerable...
...general, the Harvard speakers maintained than the United States can not avoid embroilment in foreign troubles, and that war, therefore, is always a possibility. To protect the seaboard cities from destruction, and to prevent a blockade, a powerful navy is necessary. The greatness of the interests at stake justifies almost any expense...
...avoid all confusion we would call particular attention to the announcement of the registration rooms in another column...
...very essence of religion is to propose to us, first, that the best things are the more eternal; second, that we are better off by believing this truth. In case both branches of this hypotheses are true, we are supposed to gain a certain good by belief. If we avoid the issue, we lose the good. The sceptic says, "Better risk loss of truth than chance of error." But we have no evidence that dupery through hope is worse than dupery through error. A sceptic, by requiring absolute proof before he believes, may cut himself off from all future good...