Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...certainly seldom enough that opportunity is offered for anything like a systematized contest between nines which represent the, so to speak, "non-professional" ball players of the University. We hope, therefore, that the number of entries will be large. There is nothing in the conditions for the series to prevent nines from the Law School, or other graduate department from entering. It has been decided that men who are at present trying for their class nines, or for the second 'varsity nine, are not ineligible for this contest, provided that they have never played previously with these nines...
...added power and more elevated and comprehensive conceptions that it imparts, it is short. Our youth to-day are too much inclined to hurry. In the travels of Baron Munchausen, we read of a man who had to have cannon balls tied to his feet to prevent him from running too fast. Would it not be well to tie something of the same sort, say, four years of college life, and college training, and college education, to the legs of all the hasty and over-ambitius fortune seekers...
...been suggested that some method be found of holding the tug-of-war rope down without the necessity of one or even two men standing on it. Also if some machine could be made so as to prevent one team from pulling the ribbon on their side before the start, it would ensure a fair drop for both sides. The invention of such a machine ought not to be a difficult task, and it would facilitate matters greatly at the winter meetings...
...waiter to supply the many and varied wants of fourteen students, in the short time allowed for meals by the present regulations. If we may be allowed to suggest a simple remedy, we propose that each of the three dining hours be extended by fifteen minutes, in order to prevent the rush, and discomfort which are unavoidable when so many desire to be served at once...
...does not succeed, he will have a chance at least of doing a little miscellaneous mischief by the way-ruining a peasant girl, or the emperor's finances. When the attempt finally fails, he turns the laugh against the other side, which has been so earnest to prevent him, by showing how little he cares for what they make such a fuss about. "The holy ones triumph, but the evil one-whistles...