Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whom drink to excess; and it is in much company that he acquires evil habers which will remain with him in after life. It is a this period that man's habits are formed. His physical appetite and passions are strong; his moral will power too is strong; the curb and reins he has in his grasp. The all important question is, Which shall reign, passions and physical appetite, or the will? Granted that many successful men indulge in intoxicating liquors to a moderate degree, yet their lives are not what they would be were they total abstainers: Strong drinks...
...Cornell, or Lund of Harvard, fully 10 feet behind his leaders. Next came Baker, of Harvard; Bonine, of Michigan, and either Lund or Horr, almost exactly abreast, Bonine, if anything, a shade behind the others. A few feet in front of this row, and close to the inner curb, ran Rogers, of Harvard, while Sherrill, of Yale, was in the middle of the path, and so nearly in front of Lund (or Horr) that the picture shows, only part of his head, part of each shoulder, a thin strip of his left side from...
...Medical authorities are brought on the scene, and we are informed as a climax that one of the injured players was "probably fatally injured." Such rhetorical efforts as this, savor over much of the morbid, and we trust that the writer of the glaring account, will, in the future, curb his imaginative enthusiasm and adopt a little less of the conventional dime novel style...
...suffered in silence, howsoever many terrors attached, but the outrageous proceedings of the last night went beyond the average, and the villagers were awakened by the shock to a new sense of their own consequence, their own rights and their own powers." If Dr. McCosh really wishes to curb the spirits of his students in an effective manner, we advise him not to bind them down by petty rules and regulations that are more fitted for a primary school than for a college; but to come to Cambridge, and study the system employed at Harvard; then let him go back...