Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exhibition of German duelling. The management of the meetings has been satisfactory, as a rule, in former years, but we should like to suggest one much needed improvement. We refer to the present manner of admitting the audience to the gymnasium. Some means ought to be taken to prevent the dangerous and disgraceful crowding and pushing in the vestibule before the doors are opened. This can easily be avoided by numbering all the seats in the unreserved parts of the benches, and allowing members of the association to procure checks for these seats before the meeting, in order of application...
...necessary. It has ended the conflict between prescribed and elective courses in the collegiate department by the substitution of the "group system," which has been adopted at Bryn Mawr College. Almost every young man will find that one of these seven avenues to a Bachelor's degree will prevent him from wasting time, and he has more than sufficient choice of studies to make it certain that he is not asked to devote himself to an uncongenial task to a greater extent than is good for him. These seven courses go under the following names : classical, mathematical-physical, chemical-biological...
...hoped that the future "Cambridge Assemblies," which are to be held at the gymnasium, will not prevent the rowing-room from being ready for use on the Monday following. Last Monday several crews were unable to row, as the rowing-weights had not yet been put down after their removal for the use of the ball. This is, to say the least, an inconvenience, and although the matter is a small one, it is to be sincerely hoped that hereafter the room will be ready for the crews...
...their views on any subject would be broadened and their tolerance of other people's opinions would be increased by listening to lectures by different men of varying opinions." The exchange of professors, however, the writer concludes, is impracticable. "A constant change" he says, "might impede or even prevent the original researches of many professors," besides putting them to great inconvenience by change of residence and social relations. "But," he continues, "this same object, viz., the extension of the independent judgment of the students, might be furthered in a slightly different manner. When we cannot conveniently move the professors...
...expenses. For the past two years the debt has not increased, and if the college will make an effort and pay off the existing debt this year, the club will be enabled in future to carry on their affairs on a cash basis, which will lessen the actual expenses, prevent tradesmen from charging interest on delayed bills, and will do away with all chance of forming a new debt...