Word: restrainedly
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...think any fair-minded person will see that it is not "obstinacy and stubborness" that restrain the overseers, and that until they get more money-and money which they can usethey are as helpless as ourselves. Gore Hall needs to be remodeled, if not partly rebuilt; for the light in the daytime, except on the brightest days, is very deficient and ill-arranged. The library authorities have such a scheme in consideration, but it clearly would be poor policy to commence the undertaking before they have enough money to carry it through. The proper place, it seems...
...which suggests that mental qualities are involved, as well as bodily ones, in the production of the athlete. We have heard the statement made, by one who knew what he spoke of, that college men who aspire to success in both studies and athletics suffer in their constitutions. To restrain such from exertions which they can not safely make should be, and is one of the duties of a professor of physical culture...
...course this is only thoughtlessness on their part; but cannot these men restrain their exuberant joy until their unfortunate neighbors can unite with them in burying all unpleasant reminiscences of the "Semis...
...compelled to lodge near them. If there is anyone now on the point of ignoring his position as a member of an organism, let him bethink himself of the category in which he will be placed if he gives way to his desire to be noisy, and then restrain himself from perse cuting his neighbors with an intrusion of his personality upon these moments of study and application...
...their movements. And besides, those few gentlemen who remained on the seats as they should, were entirely prevented from obtaining a view of some of the most interesting plays. A crowd is always selfish and the only way to keep men within bounds is to appoint several leaders to restrain them. If the captain of the eveven would kindly select six or seven ushers or clerks of the grounds at the next game, he would add a great debt to the comfort of the college at large, as well as give his team a better chance to make fine plays...