Word: forewarning
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...House in order. Rules given the subwhips: Four of them must be on the floor of the House at all sessions; all of them when important measures are under consideration; they must shush the Majority whenever it threatens to lose its dignity, become loud and boisterous; must forewarn the leaders of revolts brewing; must keep Democrats from signing petitions to discharge unwelcome bills from committees; must, above all, not allow the formation of blocs...
Harvard men, reports the Boston Globe, go to Vassar as seldom as they can. Not that we've noticed this discrepancy or anything; but just to forewarn prospective-football audiences we think they ought to know the reason for the slight. It seems we are too active. We are apt to take them on long walks, a picnic, or a round of golf...
...receive his glowing offers to talk them over with friends and former dupes before signing the papers. The man who has carried on the business so successfully among Sophomores in past years was this year forced to find Freshmen to do his work. If now we can forewarn Freshmen, we shall perhaps run the calendar Janus out of his place in College...
...fair and just way to do would be to publish the rule this year, to go into effect in 1898. This would permit '98 men to take the course next year (and it is really only they who are affected), and would forewarn the lower classes not to put it off. Let every '98 man who feels the weight of this new rule protest against it and request that it be not put into effect till...