Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regulations, students are forbidden to have any unauthorized books or papers in an examination-room...
Nichols will not be able to play ball until the weather is warm, as he has been forbidden by his physician on account of rheumatism...
...private journal of the late John Langdon Sibley, is found a very amusing account of the burial services in honor of the game of foot-ball which was forbidden by the faculty in the year 1860. Below is given that account in Mr. Sibley's own words...
...college Glee Club of Dartmouth, were recently forbidden to sing in public as negro minstrels. The ingenious students appeared with their faces whitened...
...have been that the cooks got the greater part of his perquisites or wages, emphasizing their demands, when he was disposed to be less generous than they wished, by furnishing such poor food at the table presided over by him that the guests rose in rebellion. He was forbidden to talk to any of the guests and ordered to keep in the back part of the house. It is to be presumed that next season he will seek some more congenial field, perhaps a Maine hay field. Then again, to form the habit of the lackey by living on fees...