Word: debar
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...often objected to religion that it places on a young man many restrictions that debar him from many of the pleasures of life. Though this may be somewhat true, the privation is no more than what a young man must undergo in any training. When he is working for an athletic team he must always be denying himself. In religion all the restriction he must place over himself is to learn to control himself and to build up his character on a firm foundation...
...recent meeting of the Intercollegiate Football League it was voted to debar Medical students from playing...
Fifth-Referee of any game at request of either captain shall debar any man not included in the list submitted or who has been declared ineligible by the Advisory Committee...
...attaining our common object. As I wrote you in my letter of Feb. 17th, we think the new rules should be uniform for all the sports; that they should be permanent, and not for a single year; and that they should not go into so immediate operation as to, debar students who are now at the university and eligible under existing conditions. We believe also that Harvard being a university, should be represented by university teams rather than by college teams...
...amount to practical prohibition: No. Am. R. vol. 152, p. 27 (Jan. '91); Pub. Op. xiv. 298 (Dec. 31. '92). - (a) Total prohibition would be impossible: Pol. Sci. Q. iii. 420; Pub. Op. iii. 250. - (b) Impossible to collect the tax: Forum, xiii, 366 (May, '92) - (c) It would debar families from immigrating. - (d) Immigration is self regulating: Forum. xiv. 606; No, Am. R. Ixxxii. 251, 259; Ap. Am. Cyc. vi. 578-579; No. Am. vol. 134. p. 348: Pol. Sci. Q. iii. 50; (e) Opposition to immigration comes largely from foreigners themselves; (f) Prohibition would be a reversal...