Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Eighty-nine. Every one who has signed the book should make it a point to attend, for there is every prospect that the dinner will be a most enjoyable affair. There will be no formality, every one will feel at his ease, and nothing short of physical disability should prevent anyone from being present. To those who do not intend to go we would say that it is their loss, nobody's else. To those who intend to go we prophecy that they will be amply repaid for their trouble...
...conception of the proper means of making the matter understood! We hear more slovenly enunciation and villainous pronunciation than we hear careful and correct, for the main reason that men have not had their attention drawn to their mistakes and they continue in blunders which a little study would prevent. This is what is given in the elocution sections and those who have taken this work testify to its value in their petition. We feel certain that the members of the faculty who would take the pains to investigate the teaching here and its results would be only too ready...
...loaf the greater part of the year and to grind up before the examination just enough to enable him to pass. As a result, the writer urges, a few days after the examinations he knows as little as he did before. The adoption of the hour examination plan would prevent this evil and would cause systematic work...
...national independence fostered by protection is good only in case of war. It is better to prevent war altogether by establishing a large free international trade.- D. A. Wells in Atlantic Monthly, vol. 36, p. 216. (b) Free trade in the end gains a better and greater independence by forcing our people to the greatest energy of their intellectual powers, instead of rendering them indolent by unwise assistance.- Cairnes...
...have promised to read selections from their works. The entertainment cannot fail to be interesting, and the object is so worthy that we are anxious to impress on all that it is their duty to attend. Even if attendance on the part of some is impossible, it should not prevent them from buying a ticket to forward the cause. Longfellow was so universally beloved, and was so long identified with our college, that it has now become our duty to see that our honored professor and poet has a fitting memorial. Tickets for the reading have been placed on sale...