Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Munro will be careful with his fragile team this afternoon to avoid further injuries before Yale. He definitely will not play injured attackman Dave Bohn, who seems set to be New England's individual high scorer even if he sees no more action this year...
Although the number of applications rose very slightly, the College has admitted 35 fewer students than last year. An unexpectedly high acceptance rate last year necessitated a sudden upward revision in class size. The Committee, therefore, has taken particular care to avoid overacceptance...
Combining dorms into three or four Houses--each containing about 275 students and 25 Faculty affiliates--will end what in the past has been a serious objection to the dormitories: that they are too small to allow people to avoid each other. Group pressures that seem smotheringly oppressive in a dorm are less noticeable in larger units, and students in the Houses will have room to be more selective about their acquaintances...
...carries out Mrs. Bunting's plans, Radcliffe should avoid the temptation to duplicate the Harvard system merely because it is an easy model to follow. There may be, for example, no reason why the 'Cliffe should re-shape its tutorial system to fit its new House structure--a la Harvard. The 'Cliffe administration may decide that its own Houses and tutorials ought to remain separate, or they may not. Radcliffe can afford to examine Harvard's House system very critically indeed; selecting only what it wants, and experimenting freely where the Harvard model seems irrelevant...
Usually the show's run is extended, sometimes for half a year or more. But customers who avoid doctors and insurance men, do not attend union meetings, and are past college age, resent having to pay the regular onefer price. Did the smug type in the next seat, the onefer buyer wonders, get his wholesale...