Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...arrangement between English and American crews would be not only possible but also highly desirable. It is useless to deny that there is something the matter, not only with boating, but also with the other athletics at Harvard. A fresh stimulus must be given to our athletics to prevent our position being lowered still further...
...generally supposed yesterday that the freshmen class meeting would take place this evening, but,as was the case last year, the faculty decided that, in order to prevent the consequences of a rush, the meeting should occur in the afternoon. This is probably a sore disappointment to many of the sophomores, who think they have an a priori right to enjoy a little fun with the freshmen on the night of the first classmeeting. With regard to the action of the faculty, it must be said that the tendency for "rushing" such as it exists at other colleges is gaining...
...football season is at hand. Will a regenerated opinion show that Harvard can win as well as lose; or will the old lackadaisical spirit-occasioned, we believe, by a morbid fear of criticism-influence those who ought to offer their services and prevent them from making themselves known? If the new students of this year will be brave enough to care nothing for the feelings which certain badly bred but omnipresent persons are rude enough to show, then we may never hear again that remark which has become now extremely trite, "Oh! They don't know how to play foot...
...Committee regret that some one connected with the University has seen fit to dispose of his tickets to an outsider, who has placed them on sale in one of the drug stores on Harvard Street. The Committee have done their best to prevent and stop this speculation, but they have been unsuccessful. They do not consider it for the best interests of Class Day that they themselves should sell tickets to the general public, but in order to accommodate members of the University, they announce that there will be a sale of tickets at the regular rates from...
...faculties of those colleges have taken a hand in the consultations, which have resulted in a general request that Mr. Camp should devise some laws that would prevent those unseemly quarrels concerning time, place and referees, which have marred former contests...