Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...purpose of identification, and to prevent the intrusion of unauthorized persons, it is ordered that all students of the University shall, upon their first visit to the Gymnasium, exhibit to the Superintendent the Bursar's certificate...
These suggestions are free to all, and should they meet with favor, I could add a few variations, for a change, to prevent the writer's growing weary. The readers, as I said before, for obvious reasons, need not be considered...
...many students, indeed, early hours may be really injurious. Social engagements, and the force of habit, which is too deeply rooted to be broken up in two months, prevent them from going to bed before midnight. And if prayers come before seven, they will have little more than six hours for sleep. If there is any good reason for the proposed change, the desires of the students will hardly affect it; but if, as seems probable, it is only a spiritless revival of a bygone custom, a well signed petition may very probably accomplish its end. We would suggest, then...
OWNERS of boats in the boat-house are requested to send their names, and the numbers of their rests, to the treasurer, Mr. Heminway, 27 Holyoke, to prevent mistakes in the allotment of rests to applicants...
...opinion active measures should be taken at once to prevent such fearful results, and results even more to be feared. "In man there is nothing great but mind"; why then should we let anything take us for a moment from our minds? We come here to cultivate them; why then attend to anything else? It is a waste of time to take three hours a day from this short life of ours and devote them to filling our stomachs with food; to occupy precious moments (when we might be storing our minds instead of our stomachs) with an employment which...