Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...fall practice. In previous years the men have reported for track after Christmas entirely unknown to the coaches and entirely out of condition, so that it was necessary to pick a team in two or three weeks from raw, untrained and unknown material. It is in order to avoid this necessity that fall track is being conducted this year...
These concerts have been arranged on Thursday evenings in order to avoid and conflicts with any other undergraduate engagements. The first of these concerts will be given on December 16, in conjunction with Albert Spalding, the American violinist; the second on February 17, with Frieda, Hempel, the famous prima donna, formerly with the Metropolitan Opera Company, and for the third, on April 7, the club has again engaged Fritz Kreisler, whose concert with the club last year attracted so much attention...
...Resolved, by citizens of Cambridge and Boston and by members of the Faculty and student body assembled in Brattle Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 3d, 1920, that members of the House of Representatives confine their attention to American problems, and particularly that they avoid by official or unofficial act any interference in the so-called Irish question, which is not the proper concern of any department of the Government of the United States, and least of all that of the House of Representatives of the United States...
...should be little trouble in arranging for an agency to have general oversight of the student calendar. Would not the appointment of a single undergraduate, with whom all organizations would be compelled to register important dates, be sufficient? By such a scheme the cumbrousness of a committee would be avoided, and ceneralization of control would be made doubly certain. The hours for all scheduled meetings and games could be entered in a book which would be placed in some conveniently located spot, always open to consultation. Naturally, the student "bookkeeper" would in no way usurp the position of the present...
...Washington team is to be in Cambridge on the evening of Thursday, May 20, for a dinner to be given in its honor, it would seem practical to have the debate take place on that night also and thus avoid the conflict. If this is impossible, however an effort should be made to have the Washington team arrive here a day earlier. Then the dinner could be held on Wednesday and the debate Thursday...