Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Morton, '92, of the affirmative, opened the debate. Where women are made citizens, they should have all the rights of naturalization as well as man. To prevent women from voting is to depopulate a country of just so many citizens. Woman is said to be indifferent to diplomacy and statesmanship, but that is only because she is given no chance to take any part in them...
...sure the success of the experiment along these lines will depend entirely upon the students who compose the clubs, but surely a just appreciation of their privileges will prevent on their part any abuse of them...
...custom of each man at the training tables paying what his board had previously cost him, has for some unknown reason been abandoned, and that now it is sometimes difficult to collect any money for board at all. We had always presumed that certain conscientious scruples would prevent a man, although a member of a university team, from living entirely at the expense of the college, and that as a matter of course, he would pay at the regular training table what he had been accustomed to pay before. While the necessary expenses of a training table will be borne...
...seems to me that it is as important to prevent fire as it is to provide fireescapes that are more dangerous than fire itself, and I hope therefore that the college authorities will take some such action as I have mentioned towards protecting the buildings...
...Yale was a member, has been wrecked in the AEgean Sea, near the Isle of Samos. An authentic account of the disaster and of the rescue of the expedition by a Turkish brigantine has been received by Professor James of the U. of P. The accident, however, will not prevent the expedition from continuing its investigation. The party is made up of John P. Peters, Director; Dr. H. F. Harper, of Yale, and Prof. Hilprecht, U. of P., assyriologists, and Prof. J. H. Havnes, J. D. Prince and P. H. Field, of Brooklyn...