Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...does not want for the sake of an investment. Moreover, the new plan has one great advantage over the old one. Students will be obliged to make a written statement in a book open for public inspection, that they derive no profit from the exchange of rooms. This will prevent some men from perjuring themselves who might do so under the present system; and if the objection is made that there are men who are willing to perjure themselves even in public, yet it must be remembered that the College can adopt no system under which reliance is not placed...
...view of the approaching Athletic meetings, I wish to call the attention of all those who intend to enter to the question of apparel. Last year complaint was made by several persons who brought ladies, that some of the contestants were improperly clothed, and, to prevent any further complaint, it may be well to specify what must be worn. Loose drawers to the knee seem the most suitable articles for running or walking, but if contestants wear tights, the Executive Committee will insist upon trunks being worn over them. At the request of the Association, "Oak Hall" has manufactured several...
...during the week should reduce their liability of making fielding errors, and at the bat they ought to be much more successful than last Saturday. Besides this, the reappearance of Tyng and Ernst in their old positions is enough to make every man do his best, and to prevent any one from getting "rattled...
From these conclusions the Harvard Club most decidedly dissents, and maintains, on the other hand, that there is no legal prohibition to prevent any graduate, in whatever State he claims a home, from becoming an Overseer. Furthermore, that since, of the thirty Overseers, some twenty live within sight of the State House in Boston, the obvious tendency of the Board in future is to the character of a close corporation, whereas it was clearly the design of the Act of 1865 to withdraw the College entirely from connection with the State and from local opinion...
...outsiders, who have no previous impressions of the speakers to rid themselves of. We were told a short time ago that the Professor of Oratory had decided not to be one of the judges at the final contest: we cannot see why the same reasons should not also prevent him from judging at the preliminary contest, much more from being the sole judge...