Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been made by the faculty rather than by the overseers. That the faculty should be overborne on a matter of discipline by an outside body having no share in the management, is certainly calculated to aggravate the most serious defect of our collegiate system. Nothing does so much to prevent a "collegiate education" as it is called, in our day and generation, leaving marked and lasting effects on the character and tastes of young men who graduate, as the low esteem in which they hold the professor-that is, the small importance they attach to their opinions about everything relating...
...Yale men to celebrate Yale's success in athletics, tomorrow night, such claims will not be still more recklessly put forth. We have shown repeatedly how false and misleading these claims are, especially in the form in which they are circulated, but we have not been able to prevent the acceptance of them by college papers and the general public which have had no way to test the truth of them. We repeat again the true record. Princeton won the games of '73, '78, and '85. Yale won the games of '76, '82, '83, '87, and '88. There were...
...sent to Amherst yet, however. No challenge has yet been received from the Yale freshmen, and it is thought best not to arrange any other games to take place late in the spring, until the date for one of the games with Yale has been arranged. This plan will prevent any possible conflict with either of the Yale games. The Amherst freshmen generally have a very good nine, and it is to be hoped that at least one game may be arranged with them...
...should assert our nationality and prevent further aggressions...
...city of Cambridge, for some incomprehensible reason, has forbidden any one to skate on Fresh Pond this year. At first it was thought that this action was taken for the sake of preventing persons from venturing on the ice before it was strong enough to bear. But now that the ice is four or six inches thick, this excuse for forbidding skating is no longer plausible. If the city of Cambridge is anxious to prevent accidents at the Pond, it seems to us it has adopted a very poor means for carrying out its plan. Now, there is a double...