Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...enthusiastic and the numbers were well received. The Glee Club did itself credit, and if it sings as finely on its trip as it did last night it will be well received. There is a tendency, however, to hurry at times. Perhaps this arises from a commendable desire to avoid the opposite extreme; but there are times when a slower movement would be more acceptable...
...Nicolls' "Hypnotic Experiment" is clever and amusing. It may be queried whether the ejaculating narrative with parentheses addressed to the hearer, is an improvement to a story. Is it not as well to avoid an absolute imitation of a conversation even when one is reporting it? Do such expressions as "and I-well, I rather liked her-you needn't smile, I didn't care much about her" or "and dignified!-by George ! I've never seen anything like it" help the flow of the narrative any ? This is merely a suggestion, not an implication that...
...usual, very many have modestly put off signing until the last moment. It is out of place to urge anyone to attend this dinner, for all know how much benefit always is derived from such an event. It is also plain that in order to provide comfortable accommodations and avoid a great crush, the committee must know by tonight at the very latest how many to expect. It will therefore be more convenient, to say the least, if everyone signs right away...
...result of the Yale-Princeton game is of course highly gratifying to Harvard for it is impossible to avoid drawing the perfectly evident conclusion that if Harvard had been in the League this year the championship would have come to Cambridge. This assumption only tends to increase the delight which we lound after the Yale game and to make more prominent the entire success of our football season...
...order to avoid any complications, people are reminded that no tickets will be accepted except such-as-were purchased directly from the class day committee...