Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...necessity of lending us some aid. In case it should not be found possible to raise the requisite amount for the purchase of a paper boat, the shell of last year will have to be used. We thoroughly believe, however, that the graduates will do their utmost to prevent us from being reduced to this discouraging necessity...
...requisition is put upon Seniors to offset the privilege of voluntary attendance at recitations. The Faculty recognize the liability of a student's loafing through the first half of the year, failing on the Semi, and making it up at the Annual. This mode of procedure they intend to prevent by making fifty per cent the requisite mark in every examination. In this way of looking at it the change may result in some good, but however great this good may be, it seems to me to be more than outweighed by the disadvantages which will attend the system. According...
...Corporation agrees to move it to any available spot which the societies interested may show a preference for. Rooms will then be fitted up to the satisfaction of the societies, and their household gods will be moved for them to the new quarters. Strenuous efforts have been made to prevent the disturbance of the existing order of things, but the Corporation say that they have become convinced, against their will, that it is for the best interest of the College that societies - and especially theatrical societies - should not occupy rooms in the same buildings where students live. The danger...
...prevent the possible results of a controversy which seemed likely to degenerate into something like personal abuse, we have decided not to publish an answer to the article in the last Advocate, entitled "Maudlin Criticism." That article, even in its title, was so offensive that comments upon it have come to us from many sources, while lengthy - not to say heavy - refutations of its sentiments have been meditated by several persons. A feeling of compassion for the readers of the Crimson has also moved us in this matter. It has always been the desire of the editors of the paper...
From present appearances the race will be closely contested, at all events, and it is greatly to be hoped that the crews will do all in their power to prevent the contest from degenerating into a mere scratch-race...