Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Association Football League will be held in New York on Saturday, January 8, 1916, at Columbia University. At that time the captains and managers of the league teams will meet to make plans for next season and confer about a new eligibility ruling to prevent a repetition of some of the mix-ups of the past season. Other business to be transacted will be the arranging of the 1916 schedule and the selecting of the All-American team...
...order to prevent excessive expense for those attending the dance the Committee requests that no one send flowers to his guests...
...witness the contract, which was then called sacred. Often, a few years later, this sanction was not found sufficient to deter rulers from action contrary to the treaty, if policy seemed to make such action advantageous. The League to Enforce Peace aims to provide such sanction as will prevent hostilities, until resort has been had to a judicial tribunal or a council of conciliation, as a it has been found that mere recommendation that such a course be followed is not sufficient...
...platform of the League does not, as some have said, propose 'gratuitous interference in differences between states,' but proposes to prevent hostile acts or was between its members, until resorts has been had to other approved methods of settling by pacific means the international controversies. In order that the rules in accord with which the court may act, shall be clear, provision is also made for conferences to formulate these rules...
...Brown need not worry about any slights, real or fancied, in this regard. The best way to prevent the repetition of such an incident is to develop an eleven that will make it impracticable for Coach Haughton to have his best players absent from the field. These matters work themselves out in time. The question of appeasing the Boston spectators who stayed away from the game because of the announcement that so many of the Harvard stars would not play is another matter." HERBERT K. DENNIS...