Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...float tonight for a six-mile row up stream, the launch "John Harvard" steamed over to the Yale quarters and followed the crew over the entire course, keeping less than fifty yards behind. The men in the shell were told not to exert themselves during the trial, to prevent the Harvard coaches from judging their merits. They rowed an easy stroke of less than 29 throughout, and were accompanied by the freshman crew...
Another objection is that the women will not be suitably gowned for a dusty walk or the crush at the bridge, and this is a valid objection; for it is likely to prevent many from attending, and any lack of co-operation on the part of members of the class arising form objection to the plan must inevitably defeat the purpose of a class exercise...
...manager and assistant manager respectively, of the Freshman baseball team, and of H. S. Vanderbilt '07 as second assistant manager of the University football team were approved. Applications of the basketball and hockey teams to add fourth out of town games to their schedule were refused. This will prevent the final basketball game with Yale which was provisionally scheduled for March 11, at New Haven, and it is probable that Yale may decline to play the game scheduled for March 5 at Cambridge if no return game at New Haven is possible. Permission was given the hockey team to leave...
...spirited. The University team for the first time played well together throughout almost the entire game, and in this way, by advancing together and passing the puck accurately and rapidly, succeeded both in scoring many times and in keeping the second team so effectually on the defensive as to prevent it from scoring more than twice. When on the defensive, the first team forwards showed considerable ability in preventing the opposing forwards from passing them. Once passed, however, they neglected to follow back in a concerted way, and thus allowed the two goals scored against them. The shooting was both...
Fifty tickets for floor seats, at $1.50 each, have been put on sale at the Athletic Association office; and gallery seats, at 75 cents each at Leavitt and Peirce's. In order to prevent the tickets from falling into the hands of speculators, not more than two seats will be sold to one person at either sale...