Word: preventer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...object of the rule is, of course, to prevent a student from deferring an examination on slight pretexts, for the purpose of attaining a higher mark than he feels able to get at the specified time. The belief that this rule will rarely ever do an injustice, by affecting such as are absolutely incapacitated from attendance on examination on account of severe sickness, is based on the experience of the last five years, that but one Senior has, during that time, been absent from his annuals. It is inferred that valid reasons for absence cannot be more numerous...
AFTER all the preaching against cramming that the students of this College have heard, both through the columns of the College papers and from the desks of the recitation-room, after all the springing of examinations, avowedly done in order to prevent previous hasty preparation, and after Mr. Bain's contemptuous disparagement of what he calls "temporary adhesiveness," one would have supposed that the odious practice must have vanished wholly from the land. Yet probably never, during the existence of the College, has cramming ever been required more absolutely than at two examinations in metaphysics which have lately been given...
...against Saratoga. When this town was chosen for the boat-race, a great outcry was made, as everybody knows, that the upright boating lads would be corrupted by the evil influences of that sinful place. This objection, however, was groundless, since the strict training of the oarsmen would effectually prevent any dissipation on their part; but the present case is different. The slight training required of amateur ball-players would be no protection to the poor youths, and yard-sticks would fail to measure the length of our faces, on our return to Cambridge, when we heard that the ruin...
...prevent, in part at least, this trouble, and to give a sufficient knowledge of electives to allow of a wise choice by the students, the best plan seems to be to make use of the columns of the College papers, and by that means bring before the fellows a fair review of the different studies. But in doing so we ask that criticisms shall be just, and that the opportunity shall not be taken to find fault with instructors and electives generally, simply because they are such, or because a student finds pleasure in directing his remarks against a particular...
FRESHMAN wants to know if the trees have been tarred to prevent the bugs from coming down and eating up the grass...