Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...right by that time to prefer as sharers of his entry those men whom he knows to be congenial, rather than the same number of men who may or may not prove so. Moreover, the new system in giving groups of friends the opportunity to live together, does not prevent men who have fewer friends from taking their chances of finding agreeable neighbors, as in the past. Their chances are the same as before...
...Harding emphasized the fact that this new system will enable the small units in which every class is divided to live close together and, by learning each others' points of view, prevent the rupture and disunion which have in some former years ruined all class unity and life after graduation. The next speaker, A. Gregg, praised the new method in that it enabled men to have some sincere reason for rooming in the Yard and did away with the custom of applying simply because it was a thing generally done by most of the class. P. D. Smith, denying...
...tank. The first two are common enough grievances but the last is the real cause of the trouble; for it is not only so difficult to develop sufficient material for a swimming team without a proper tank that the loss of one or two men is almost sure to prevent its winning, but it is almost impossible for the men that do come out to get the necessary practice and training. We call attention to this lamentable situation, not only to show that the swimming team is made to labor at a disadvantage, but because it is another instance...
From all accounts the dining halls are recovering under careful nursing from their former precarious state. The work of the managing committee and the favor of the Corporation have averted the disasters that threatened. A continuation of official supervision and aid is the obvious method to prevent a recurrence of trouble...
...committee of the Student Council is now engaged, at the suggestion of the Athletic Committee, in preparing a substitute for the two season rule which is now in force. The ineffectiveness of that rule in its failure to prevent some cases of over-athleticism, and the injustice which it works to our teams in other cases by putting unnecessary restraint on able athletes, have long made it the target of reasonable attack...