Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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LAST Saturday afternoon two overcoats were stolen from the Library. To prevent any more thefts a check-boy has been placed in charge of the coat-room...
...have a marked book before me, and the passages clearly indicate that "the good work was done by different hands, each striving to complete the work of his predecessor and to prevent his successor's receiving mistaken ideas of his capacity, - just as if one ever knew who marked a book. Here are a few of the selected bits marked in the book before...
...seriously interfere with the enjoyment of the latter, there is room for much debate. One thing is certain, however, that the accommodations for man and beast at New London are entirely insufficient on such an occasion as an inter-University race, and that strenuous efforts should be made to prevent a repetition of the famine that raged there the 28th of last June...
...seems to us that it would be better for Cornell and Harvard to row the race as agreed upon in the challenge than to complicate matters by competing in an open regatta with other colleges, at a date which may be so late in the summer as to prevent our crew's rowing in England. As the plans of the National Association are not entirely settled, and our own arrangements with the English Universities are not concluded, it is premature to say what we shall do or what we shall not do. But this much...
...FRESHMAN wishes to know if joining the St. Paul's will prevent his election to the K. N. Will some responsible person answer...