Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...means of recreation will become a business so irksome that many who now enjoy their daily row on the river will only go to the river from a sense of duty, and a false one at that. It is not right that preparation for the class races should prevent a man from bestowing even a fair amount of work on his college duties. They are unmistakeably first in importtance, and should not be neglected to the extent which "R" claims they will be if '84's example is followed and allowed to become a custom. Furthermore, it would...
...athletics was unnecessary and inexpedient ; that no abuses existed in inter-collegiate athletics that could not be corrected by the students themselves ; that the students of the various colleges ought to have full control of the details of athletics, and that the faculty ought to interfere only negatively to prevent neglect of college duties...
...Waite then read part of the constitution and refuted the argument for the negative, saying, that although it was impossible to prevent plotting, at least an attempt ought to be made to surpress it and restrain it within legitimate bounds. Mr. Hoar for the negative, stated that all the laws passed by foreign governments availed naught in stopping dynamite and murderous outrage, and that if the United States should make such a treaty, it would bring upon itself all the evils that England and Russia are now suffering. Further remarks upon the subject were made by Messrs. Luce, Hobson, Hansen...
...faculty of Williams College have been obliged to hire a policeman to patrol the college ground to prevent a collision between the sophomores and freshmen. For the past three days can rushing has been indulged in with considerable fierceness...
DEAR SIR:-I am directed to inform you that there is nothing to prevent you from making the usual arrangements for the games of the ensuing season. I am further instructed by the committee on athletics to say that the games must be played upon the grounds habitually used by one of the competing colleges, or upon the grounds of some other college; but that no games are to be played in Boston, New York, or Philadephia, except with the nines of colleges in those cities...