Word: forbidding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faculty go so far as to forbid all athletics of a violent nature and confine us to the cultured evolutions of the chest-weights and running track, they will doom the college to a state of happiness and effeminacy, far more disasterous in its results, morally and physically, than foot ball can ever be. Although only two teams represent the college, from fifty to seventy-five men engage in the game constantly during the season. These are for the most part, men of much energy and great animal spirit, whose natures crave some form of stirring excitement. The faculty will...
...students but six at the Laval University, a Montreat Catholic college, were publicly expelled yesterday for refusing to submit to the regulations which forbid them to attend political meetings, go to a theater, or join any literary or debating society, and exact that they produce confession certificates at least once every three months...
...custom, especial care should be taken to make our marching as free from political significance as possible. Many men, I think, would refuse to march, if they had to do so under any political transparencies. The simplest way to avoid any such trouble, is for the general committee to forbid strictly all political demonstrations in our battalion. This would avoid any split in our ranks...
...hope that a sentiment of honor will forbid an evasion of that payment by players. The college authorities are thinking of taking charge of the courts in the spring, but wish, first, to allow us one chance to run them ourselves. Let us try to profit...
They do not object on such occasion to cheering, to music, or illuminations by lanterns, gas, or Bengal lights in the yard, or to fireworks on Jarvis or Holmes field, provided that all demonstrations cease by eleven o'clock P. M. They object to and forbid bonfires, horn-blowing, and noisy or dangerous fireworks...