Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Other clergymen on board give even worse descriptions of the scene, and the question has been raised whether continued support should be given the college, which seems unable to suppress the worst phases of French student life in which religion is mocked...
...cannot even at this late day suppress a sigh of regret for one of the changes which was brought about last summer during the absence of the students in what might be called one of the historic landmarks of old student life at Harvard. Everybody is familiar with the tender and classic ditty : "A poco lived on Brighton street." Every student of this as well as of former days has been made familiar with the classic thoroughfare celebrated in these lines. Therefore no student returning to college this fall we presume has failed to notice the change made...
...forbidding all such performances. It is most unpleasant to be a witness of these constantly occurring contests, particularly so since they are in direct violation of all good order. The directors have shown themselves to be heartily in favor of all reforms, and we look to them then to suppress this most disagreeable and unnecessary practice...
...real truth is that the college has always been, and now permanently is, a gymnasium where the young have to learn the necessities of actual life in its comprehensive scope, and realize their capacities and limitations under conditions the best calculated to suppress undue conceit and awaken or abolish dullness...
...Yale News entirely misunderstands Harvard's position on the subject of playing with professional ball nines. It says editorially : "The discussion of the whole question of college athletics, which the action of Princeton-Harvard has raised, has proved too clearly the fatuity of any regulations which tend to suppress them to permit such regulations to be long in operation." It is not a fact that the Harvard or Princeton faculties have endeavored to suppress athletics at their respective colleges. What they did try to do was to endeavor to draw a line between gentlemen who play base-ball for sport...