Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rich university will not find the funds to light the building, but to have the time in which the library can be used made shorter than the rules require deserves stronger condemnation. The policy of the library authorities in closing the library at this early hour is to prevent students from abusing their eyesight. Will not this end be accomplished if the reading-room is closed at the regulation time for reading purposes, but the library open until 4.30 for the delivery of books...
...yielded, for we knew that nothing but the fear of severe bodily injury could ever induce a senior class to refrain from delaying until the last moment in the matter of making appointments with the photographer. We trust that the timely insertion of this warning may serve to prevent the disgraceful spectacle of an entire senior class being taken in hand and brutally "rushed" down to the studio by the enraged photographic committee. We have spoken. Diximus. Pach vobiscum...
...literary men are likely to rise. Formerly, at least in New England, any boy who showed an aptitude for books was pretty sure to be encouraged to prepare for college. The educated men were the picked men of the community. This is no longer the case, and many circumstances prevented a boy from taking a college course which do not prevent him from entering a literary-career...
...been hanging around Cambridge for some time and making a practice of stealing whatever he could find. The unfortunate man was arrested and locked up in Station 1. Shortly afterwards he was found dead in his cell, having taken poison. We give space to this explanation in order to prevent any mistakes in the columns of our contemporaries...
...Physics C. the roll will be called hereafter at the end of the hour, to prevent men leaving early...