Word: protection
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Co-operative Society this evening ought to call out a large attendance of students interested in the success of the attempt to protect the college against the exhorbitant prices of Cambridge tradesmen. The questions which are to come before the Society this evening are of importance, and there should be a full expression of opinion. The proposed changes, as stated in yesterday's issue, promise to enlarge greatly the sphere of usefulness of the Society, offering advantages to non-members as well as to members of the Society...
...feature for base-ball players is a sliding glove to protect the arm of a player while running the bases. It is made of canvas bound with leather and fits over the arm from the wrist to above the elbow. - Yale News...
...cost something, but so do peaceful governments, yet no one would favor the suppression of the latter. The very nature of our civilization demands that these armies shall be maintained. They have also a historical justification. The Persians. the Egyptians, and the Greeks all maintained large military establishments. Armies protect commerce, they prevent many wars and shorten others. They are, so to speak, a tax for insurance. Military discipline educates the lower classes, and begets in a man a cordial and enthusiastic love of country...
...proctors put in the buildings to report disturbances or to prevent them? Most assuredly the latter. We are given to understand, from good authority, that the faculty does not wish to hear of breaches of discipline in the college dormitories, but that they want the proctors to protect from molestation the men who take rooms in those dormitories and mind their own business. Men should remember that a college room is not like an isolated house in a ten acre lot. but that there is a certain duty of self-restraint which devolves upon all who live in such close...
...first University in Europe was that of Bolognia. The students who had been at work in the neighborhood formed themselves into clubs in order to protect themselves from one another. The foundation of Bolognia as were as of all other universities lies in the street brawls, which still are prevalent in Germany. Thus the first University was established. These clubs terrorized the civil authorities as well as the professors. The students decided the remuneration of the professors, whom they appointed, and discharged at will. The undergraduates, however, were men much older than many whom I see before me. The University...