Word: obstruction
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...gymnasium and the prescription of physical exercise which shall contribute to health and strength. The time is coming when we will pay experts to keep us well as we now pay physicians to make us well. There is nothing in the law of intellectual activity that need obstruct perfect health. Higher education should conserve good health...
...Subway is practicable in construction. - (a) Surface and sub-surface surveys have shown no engineering difficulty. - (1) Pipes of sewers disposed of. - (2) Foundations of buildings avoided. - (3) Injury to Common exaggerated. - (4) Sentiment should not obstruct necessary improvements. - (b) Steel construction cheaper and safer than old masonry tunnels. - (c) Details amply provided for. - (1) Ventilation. - (2) Lighting. - (3) Drainage. - (d) Outside estimate of cost $5,000,000. - (1) Sect. 1, already contracted for below estimate...
...State management would be dangerous. - (a) It would create a monopoly obstruct the advancement of civilization; Mill II, p. 567. - (1) This would check public enterprise' - (b) The whole system would result in practical enslavement of the working class, as force would be required to compel men to work, and to distribute them among industries...
...position. The grounds of objection seem to be still the number and place of the football games, and the eligibility of special students. Harvard has no wish to interfere with a Yale Princeton foot-ball game next autumn, and we cannot see how the articles can be interpreted to obstruct any arrangements for such a game. Last year Yale played four championship games. If she plays the two games with Harvard as proposed, and one with Princeton, she certainly will not have more championship matches next year than last. As for playing only one game, and that in New York...
...There is no right of the minority to obstruct legislation and action under the constitution.- Story on the Constitution 835 837, 847 note. The Federalist, Nos. 22. 58; Bryce's Am. Commonwealth, pp. 222, 299; Public Opinion, February 15, 1890, Nation...