Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...texts on the reserved list. It seems to me only fair that, where several copies of a work are in the Library, one at least should be kept in circulation. Instructors are too apt to reserve indiscriminately everything bearing on their subject, and thus to prevent readers who do not happen to take their courses from getting as much benefit from the Library as they have a right to expect. Cannot this be remedied...
Harvard played well at first when play was resumed, but could not prevent Tudhope from throwing a goal in twelve minutes and another eight minutes later. Two more goals followed in quick succession for Cornwall, thrown by Black and McDonald. Harvard again braced, and by good passing and running worked the ball down the field. Thorndike threw the last goal about two minutes before time was called...
...students in losing their property by the visitation of thieves early Monday morning out to be a salutary lesson not only for the students themselves to whose carelessness or thoughtlessness the loss was partly due, but also for the night watchmen who are supposed to be on guard to prevent such an occurrence as we are compelled to chronicle today. It seems very strange that four rooms in the dormitories in the yard should have been entered and robbed and yet that nobody, not even those on duty, should have discovered the fact until late in the morning. There seems...
...Resolved, That we, the students of Yale University, do earnestly petition the Corporation to use the means in their power to prevent the erection of this building on the site proposed; and, be it further...
...Meaning of civil service reform-(a) Not necessarily reappointment of same officials, but election of capable and efficient men; (b) the prevent civil service law does not present removals for partisan reasons, and applies only to one-eighth of the offices: Annual Report of U. S. Civil Service Commission, 1884, p. 26; 1885, p. 10; U. S. Statutes at large...