Word: forbidding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Mott Haven cup or the base-ball games which take place today and tomorrow, it would be well to have some understanding between the faculty and students; and no way seems as good as to have a conference between several men from the upper classes and the president. To forbid any disturbance, and then suspend the men who disobeyed their injunction, would be impracticable, on account of the number of men who would have to suffer. A clear understanding between faculty and students is the best way to solve the difficulty...
...Gore ball was enveloped in smoke. Should that building be burnt, the college would suffer an irreparable loss. If we must have the traditional bonfire, let it be on Jarvis field, or in some spot where no danger to any property can be apprehended. But why the faculty should forbid the brass band to lead a procession through the yard, or the Glee Club to sing, it is difficult to comprehend. The explanation possibly is that the proctors, like the students, carried their programme further than was originally intended. The students built several bonfires because they were disturbed...
...best tennis grounds in college, (that behind College House,) has been rendered useless by a notice, planted directly in the middle of the court, intended to forbid base-ball playing...
...question for discussion, "Resolved, that the United States should cooperate with other nations in the ferreting out and punishing of violent plotters against the established government," the debate was opened by Mr. Eaton, of the Law School, for the affirmative. Mr. Eaton believed the law of nations should forbid the protection of plotters, dwelling especially upon the difference between political refugees and plotters. The latter, he said ought always to come under the severest penalty of the law. The affair of the Alabama ought to give the United States a lesson on the violation of national law. Mr. Eaton...
...first, all foreigners (or boys from other parishes) were disqualified for entrance, but this rule was soon abolished, and this school then rapidly became celebrated. The villagers of Harrow with the proverbial narrowness and obstinacy of the English yeomen, appealed to the court of Chancery to forbid the admittance of strangers. But this was not granted, although some concession was made in allowing Harrow boys to receive their education cheaper than the others...