Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...printed in this issue. Our challenge, which the Ithaca newspapers considered as highly impertinent, was understood in its right spirit by the members of the Cornell Navy, and it is only the peculiar conditions laid down in our letter, and the previous arrangements of the Cornell crew, that prevent them from rowing a race which would be of advantage to both colleges. A private letter, which the Secretary of the H. U. B. C. received from the Commodore of the Cornell Navy, contains a hearty expression of the good feeling towards Harvard that exists at Cornell, and of the good...
...persons taking rooms in Holyoke House or Matthews will be required, if they employ any one, to employ the janitor of the building, to make fires, black boots, bring water, etc. It is hoped in this way to secure better care of the rooms, and to prevent the damage which is often done to the walls and floors by careless scouts...
...Freshman class, we suppose, originally got its name from the fact that it is those amiable new-comers who refresh the weariness of college routine, and prevent our suffering from any possible monotony, by their eagerness and energy in striking out into new and original paths. The Class of '81 has just furnished us with a new proof of this freshness - we use the word in no invidious, but in a complimentary sense - by their organization of a "Glass Ball Club." We heartily welcome this new addition to college sports, and wish success to the ball-shooters...
...California. After co-education comes co-editing. The gentler sex is, according to the OEstrus, "an acknowledged superior element in the college." The OEstrus is apparently conscious of its own defects, as the following observation shows : "This acquisition will tend to add dignity and tone to the paper, and prevent it from possibly falling into that low strain which we have seen in some issues of our contemporaries...
...Berkeleyan now appears in the form of a magazine, managed by five editors, two from each of the societies, and a fifth, who is described as being "originally a convenience to prevent the possibility of a tie." The position of a convenience may be an agreeble one, but we should think that the fifth editor would object to having such a statement of his capacity printed on the cover of the magazine...