Word: restrainment
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...article in the Advertiser was dated Providence, and from this we surmise that there must have been some breach of faith on the part of some one at Brown University or else this private matter would not have appeared in the papers. It seems a pity that people cannot restrain there impatience to tell but must "let the ca out of the bag" long before the proper time...
...coming junior promenade is already beginning to be a prominent topic of conversation and '85 is bound if possible to make it seem a greater success than last year's, which is say a great deal. We only trust that when it does actually come off, the News will restrain itself and not give way to such a strain of gush and nonsense as was contained in its report of the proceedings of '84's promenade. Among the principal events of the past few days was the yacht club race of a week ago today, for the third-class challenge...
...players and shutting off most of the view from those who remained upon the benches. This is obviously not as it should be. If there are any so forgetful of the rights of others in the future it is only fair that they should be compelled to restrain themselves and the management should not suffer such an act to happen again. Those who pay their admission fee to the games are entitled to a seat with the privilege attached of witnessing the game, which is an impossibility under such conditions as those of Wednesday...
...HERALD says that a scholarship is not received without "a sacrifice of personal independence." If there were no scholarships many a man must restrain that desire - that longing in some fostered even from childhood - to make himself more fully a man; he must remain the subject of adverse circumstances, and if he enter a profession he must enter it handicapped by those to whom fortune has given an education without the "sting" of accepting a scholarship. If the privilege of a scholarship is open to the same man he can, perhaps, get a college education which otherwise he could...
...facts. We have not found that a fondness for athletic exercises tended to render students indifferent to their progress in class, or influenced them, when exercising their right of selecting subjects of study, to choose easy branches or to diminish their application. On the contrary, we have had to restrain some of our athletes from undertaking more intense application to a wider range of study than we deemed advisable, and some of our brightest graduates have been men who distinguished themselves in athletic sports. Just at present we have no gymnasium in the college, because our old one has been...