Word: refraining
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...belong to the Union, to join at once. Special attention is being given to the selection of the food and music, which will be the best obtainable. Every effort is being made to reduce the expense of the dance, and for this reason everyone is requested to refrain from giving flowers to their guests...
...already in existence. As a means of identification they lose their claim to existence with each class passing through a year of cohabitation in the first year of its college career. It is not class selfishness on the part of the Seniors but wise reluctance to refrain from ill-calculated demonstrations of reform that leads to this action...
...year in the category of the major group of athletic activities with good promise. The material is good and there is plenty of it; that is, if all who are in any way capable of doing anything in the way of the game are on the ice today. We refrain from making the same old points about practice being necessary, enthusiasm on the part of the students being essential, etc. Undergraduates realize all these things. We should be very sad if they surprised us by failing to provide any of the requisites. And besides we have another chance at Yale...
...that they attempt to eliminate unnecessary chattering and efforts to rattle the opponents by the players in the field, these new rules at Yale are extremely interesting. Whether it will be possible for the players, in the excitement of the game, to refrain from encouraging their pitcher, or for the coach to throw all the responsibility on the team the minute the playing begins, remains to be seen. A great deal depends on the character of the players. While much can be done by the players themselves to improve the ethics of baseball, it remains for the spectators to apply...
...peace; and the surest way to destroy all power on our part to work for peace, and to render our conduct in seeking peace a subject of derision and contempt among the nations of mankind, would be to abandon the work of upbuilding the United States Navy and to refrain from fortifying the Panama Canal. The conduct of the misguided men who advocate such policies stands in the most striking contrast to work like that of Elihu Root at The Hague last summer, work which represented in the highest sense applied morality because it represented the successful performance of that...