Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...library authorities have determined to permit no longer the use of dictionaries at the tables for assistance in translating. These are put on the delivery room shelves with other reference books, for such use as can be made at the shelves. The authorities intend also to prevent the continuous use of the manuals and texts in study, and in the class rooms...
...caution. It is a humiliating fact, that, among a body of two thousand students, there are almost sure to be a few without principles of honesty. This year three overcoats with money and valuables have been lost, and numerous towels have mysteriously disappeared. The gymnasium authorities are unable to prevent this while men leave their property scattered around so carelessly as at present. The men using the lockers must understand that they do so at their own risk and so must be cautions about leaving their valuables in them. As for the line of hooks in the main halls...
...tendency on the part of all to play an aggressive game. Last year the winning elevens, in almost every case, shut out their opponents, and Yale did not have a point scored against her during the entire season; but this year the stronger teams have not been able to prevent the weaker ones from scoring, and the following schedule of points scored shows that all the teams scored in at least two games...
...These intercollegiate contests prevent a general physical culture among the students. The moment there is a " 'varsity team" in training the whole athletic interest centres in it; the time that should be given to vigorous exercise is given to a humpbacked watching of the practicing team from the fence or stand. This is no small evil, this making a concentrated extract of athlete; it is bad for the extract and bad for the residuum...
...Graduate Advisory committee of the Intercollegiate Foot Ball Association held a meeting at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Saturday night to consider the advisability of arranging a rule to prevent the disputes which occurred this year, relative to graduate and professional players in intercollegiate athletics. No business was transacted as the delegates from Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania were absent. Those present were Tracy Harris of Princeton, W. C. Camp of Yale, and F. D. Beattys of Wesleyan...