Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...disagreeable noises which has lately been so freely indulged in towards the close of recitations. The hour is not over till the bell rings. The last few minutes of the hour sometimes contain the pith of the lecture. It is not only boyish, but inconsiderate and ill-bred to prevent men who have gone to the lecture for the purpose of hearing it from profiting by those last few minutes. But more than this; it is in the highest degree rude and ungentlemanly to interrupt the instructor in any way while he is speaking. This...
...positions are noted each evening and resumed the following morning. There is apparently in this manner of racing little opportunity for display of skill, but it is quite the contrary. The skill the coxswains display insteering their boats and veering them to the right or left, in order to prevent the boat behind them from touching their boats is extraordinary. At present there is an increasing interest in athletics in French and German universities, and recently representatives have visited the prominent American colleges in order to study our methods of conducting athletics...
...call attention to the meeting of the Western club this evening. This club can, if properly managed, do much toward introducing Harvard to the west. Since there is no expense about the club, there is nothing to prevent every man from the states mentioned in the notice from being present...
These faults in the boat will probably prevent the crew from using her until the weather is warmer-about the end of March. This is unfortunate for the crew this year depends more than most crews upon the coaching they receive. The men are not expected to think for themselves or to be able to improve, except under the eye of a coach. If they had the launch out at the earliest possible minute, say March 1, the coaching could be done to much greater advantage. Many of the crew men are already impatient that such fine weather...
...seems as if some one ought to make an effort "to prevent an institution with so much of good democratic Yale fun in it from falling to pieces of its own weight, as it must when a few more stories are erected on the present foundation." The faculty should step in and save the students from themselves. There undoubtedly exists a willingness among the latter to meet the faculty half way. Some abuses, however, must be left to public sentiment to correct. As long as decent society will permit it, the faculty can no prevent young ladies or their chaperones...