Word: debar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale University Glee Club has announce the formation of a second club and has resolved to debar all members of the Apollo Club unless they leave the latter before March. This will result in the disbandment of the Apollo Club, which has given a number of successful concerts during the past winter...
...should become prize scholarships to be fought over by the competitors on a petty rank list? Is it conducive to the development of manhood and of scholarship for its own sake that students must become the slaves of annual marks and that the difference of one per cent should debar them from obtaining needed assistance at one of the most trying periods of their lives...
...general objection to this rule is that it deals with a matter of detail, and is principally of concern to the students themselves. Its enforcement might debar bona-fide students in the Law or Medical schools, for instance, from rowing with the crew, playing on baseball, or football teams, and in general indulging in sports which are intended as a recreation. Thus a principle which is well meant, and is intended to prevent objectionable features in athletics, is vicious in its tendencies, and its advantages are outweighed by its objectionable results...
Their youth and freshness don't debar...