Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...circumstances which make it impossible to run the trains at the last minute. As all the side seats are reserved this year, it will take a long while to get the crowd in their proper places. On this point the Springfield management asked the railroad to co-operate and prevent crowding at the last minute...
...system proposed would tend to prevent the extension of civil service reform. - (a) By appeasing those who demand reform, without really giving reform. - (b) By obscuring the real evil in our politics, viz. the spoils system, and hence delaying its eradiction...
Princeton was in no condition to play U. of P. owing to the game with the Chicago Athletic Club a short time before. Both the eleven and substitutes are not now in good condition and to play so strong a team as Cornell might reulst in injuries that would prevent one or more of Princeton's men from taking part in the game against Yale on Thanksgiving...
...salaries of all the professors of the University of Michigan have been raised in order to prevent the good men from accepting calls to other colleges...
...faculty as well as many students were shut out from the building. The only explanation given us of this is, that last year when it grew dark it was a habit among students to light a match in looking for books in the alcoves, and that this year, to prevent any accidents that might follow from this practice, the library would be closed earlier on dark days. With all the inconveniences attendant upon getting books at the library this added annoyance of closing it at such an unseasonable hour brings a feeling of mortification to the college. At the hours...