Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...method to prevent cribbing must be of a radical sort. There is an evil underlying it and supporting it that must be handled without gloves. This underlying evil is the college opinion that stamps cribbing as a thing not wrong in itself. It is the feeling that there is a difference between cheating in an examination, and telling a direct falsehood. In order to correct this state of public opinion, every student should carefully consider cribbing first, as it effects himself, and secondly, in its application to college interests. Self respect is essential to a good reputation. Can the cribber...
...victims to breathing troubles. Consumption only carries off nearly half of those who die between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five. These computations are made from a million people who have lived in the vicinity of Liverpool. It is our duty to do all we can to prevent this terrible march of the respiratory diseases. In Massachusetts and in certain English towns, owing to more prudent and sagacious living, the death rate has been materially lowered; in some cases as much as fifty per cent. The number of picked men in the English army who have been obliged...
...conduct of lecture courses. The freedom with which the Cambridge populace crowd to lectures in Sever, testifies strongly to man's inherent desire to go to "free shows." The more we see of this intrusion, the more we think that some stringent measures should be taken to prevent it. If the lectures were intended alike for Cambridge people and for Harvard students, we would have nothing further to say. But we believe that they are not so intended, and that in the management of them Harvard should have first consideration, and Cambridge second. If the seats were reserved for members...
...cuspidores (avgent), is displayed a what-is-it (purpure). This has as supporters two schooners, remplis. Above appears the crest, - a casque (argent), which seems to have some connection with the schooners beneath. Below the main device is found a chestnut (brun), which is bound with chains, evidently to prevent its being given away. The colors employed exhaust the resources of the spectrum, and makes this coat of arms rival the traditional coat of Joseph...
Just caught on: "The faculty of Harvard lately pronounced against foot-ball. This, however, does not prevent the students from continuing the game." - St. John's Magazine...