Word: restrainment
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...cannot restrain a feeling of surprise that a body of men occupying so high a social position as is claimed by most Harvard men should number some whose conception of the rights of ownership of their fellow students is so small. The summary treatment which gymnasium and laboratory thieves have met with in years past has, it is hoped, tended to make such diversions as theirs unpopular; but the umbrella fancier has returned to college with his cupidity undiminished - rather increased by the knowledge that no attempt is ever made to detect him. It is to the credit...
...Yale News, speaking of the general satisfaction felt in Cambridge over the result of our game with Yale, says: "Restrain yourselves, ye men of Harvard, lest your joy be turned to grief after the second game...
Justice Fry of London yesterday gave judgment in the case of the Union Telephone Company vs. Walker, an action to restrain the defendant from infringing on the patent for Edison's transmitter and Bell's receiver. The former point was decided against, and the latter in favor of, the plaintiff...
...beer and ale at Memorial Hall. In your editorial of yesterday I see that you do not agree with me, and are fearful lest some case of excessive drinking should occur which would tend to injure Harvard in the opinion of outsiders. You say that a man could restrain his desire for drinking until he had crossed the yard to go to Adam's or Carl's. But the same thing could be said of the entire list of extras. It is not a question of what a man can do but what is most convenient...
Professor Grunaue was the only man who endeavored to restrain...