Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...seeking to prevent the wholesale cutting of lectures on the days of important athletic contests the Student Council is aiming at an evil which has been extremely serious in past years. Until the organization of the Council it was a practice that went unchecked by any restraint except that of the College office, and which brought confusion to Saturday lectures and disrepute on scholastic and athletic affairs alike...
...which Nero had persuaded Agrippina to go. But Agrippina escaped by swimming and hastened back to Rome. Nero was afraid of his mother and at first did not dare to return to Rome. Later, however, his second attempt on his mother's life was successful. Nero, now free from restraint, surrounded himself with musicians and singers, and lived in a continuous orgy. His lavish expenditures and desire for pleasure alarmed the people. The conflagration of Rome on July 19, 64; added to their fears and Nero's downfall resulted. Conceiving the idea of building a new Rome, Nero spent vast...
...this is enough, however, to give it a prominent place in the annals, as parades go, but we are beginning to doubt it. After all it is being evidenced more and more each year that the foolishness and childishness of the average undergraduate is in a healthier condition of restraint than ten, twenty or thirty years ago, and we are optimistic to the extent that we believe this state of affairs is being further developed all the time. There was not a hitch in the proceeding Friday night, for which the committee in charge as well as the Student Council...
Your editorial of today on the Fish-Morgan suspension is admirable in its restraint, but does it emphasize quite strongly enough the injustice of the Administrative Board's action...
Curtailment, further handicap, more lead to the anchor. It's as absurd as it is typical. If that small, quaint, and old-fashioned distinction of issue between victory and defeat be not forgotten, if it bear any weight with those men in whom the injudicious restraint of athletics now lies, or if they are affected in any way by the existence of conditions which breed all over the country a broadcast belittlement of the University, why in the name of conscience and common sense don't they either abolish absolutely or let alone...