Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There have been one or two cases of scarlet fever, but the patients were immediately isolated, so as prevent contagion. Mumps and measles have not yet made their appearance among the student body but the regular time for the latter is approaching. The usual experience is to have from forty to fifty cases of measles from the last of February to to the end of April. The first symptoms are a cold in the head and a sore throat. Students that have these symptoms should be careful, while the nature of their case is uncertain, to keep themselves isolated...
...craze. Out of the mouths of the apologists for the game, he condemns it. They would restrain on the day of the great match the brute instincts which they have been sedulously cultivating through three months of training by "employing more men to watch the players," so as to prevent foul and vicious playing. What sane man can dispute President Eliot's conclusion that "a game which needs to be so watched is not fit for genuine sportsmen"? Nor will it be any easier for men whose livelihood or fame or animal gratifications do not depend upon the game...
...over the Yale freshmen in football does the college expect a good baseball team; and the first step in this direction is to give the coach plenty of material to pick from. Every man who tries for the team should do so with the fixed determination that nothing shall prevent him from doing his best to uphold the good reputation in athletics which the class of ninety-eight has thus far sustained...
...Team." Is not this a bold and unwarranted assumption? That five men should band together in what is essentially nothing more than a scrub organization and then call this a University team and represent Harvard as such, is the height of presumption. There is, as things stand, nothing to prevent their next step - that of placing an "H" upon their sweaters - a proceeding which I feel sure would arouse a protest from the whole college...
...training for the crew at the University of Pennsylvania began last Saturday under the recently elected captain, Bull. To prevent overcrowding of the squad by men of too light build ever to occupy a seat in the 'varsity boat, a weight limit for candidates has been set this year at 160 pounds. For the past week the work has been confined to regular running and gymnastic exercises, intended to put the men into good physical shape for the harder training later, when the tank is ready for occupation and the trainer chosen. The work on the tank in its location...