Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...them put safely into the steamer's strongroom, where they will remain until the steamer is met at Mollendo, Peru. The telescope will be shipped on the "Condor" of the Merchants Line around South America through the Straits of Magellan to Peru. It is sent this roundabout way to avoid the handling of the lenses by inexperienced hands at the Isthmus of Panama. From Mollendo the instrument will be taken by rail about 75 miles inland to Arequipa. The chief difficulty will be met there in transferring the heavy machinery to the observatory about three miles away, as the roads...
...avoid misunderstanding contestants must remember that any one accepting pace from the tandem at any time there-by forfeits his right to any place prize...
...obtained at the Publication Office. In making his choice, the student is limited to those studies which his previous training qualifies him to pursue; and he must observe any restrictions that may be attached to the particular courses he wishes to select. He is further required to avoid any conflict of recitation hours of examinations between his courses...
...Saturday. The object of the change is two-fold. First, to enable a student to attend, if he desires, the meetings of various, courses, and thus to learn the nature of the work which will be done in them before he makes his final choice of studies Second, to avoid changes of electives in the early part of the year...
...English universities by Oxford and Cambridge. As there is no foundation in fact for such a pretension, we think it better for university athletics in this country, as well as for university interests in general, that we should not lend any countenance to it, and that we should, furthermore, avoid all semblance of a spirit of exclusiveness towards our sister universities. Nor, considering the narrower ground of athletic skill, can we forget that, in the latest competition among American universities, Harvard won only the third place...