Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Something ought to be done to prevent teams from driving over the yard turf while it is in its present soft condition...
...FORENSIC.Third forensic, due on March 13. Subjects: 1. By what arguments can the existence of private property in land be justified? 2. From their point of view, were the Greeks justified in condemning Socrates to death? 3. Is language necessary to thought? 4. Can the State do anything to prevent monopolies? 5. The Duke of Marlborough and Wellington compared...
...much real estate exempt from taxation as Wellesley College. The college already holds property to the amount of $826,000 exempt, and the citizens opposed to its holding any more land, which would not only be a loss to the town by being exempt from taxation, but would forever prevent such lands from being improved...
...different squads to be under the direct command of leaders or captains chosen from amongst themselves as the other athletic captains are. This would relieve them of the idea that they were going through a college exercise, while the general superintendence would keep them up to the mark and prevent shirking. This plan, with three hours of regular work each week, would not fail to turn out a much stronger and better developed set of men at the end of every year. This addition to the regular curriculum, not being brain work, would be but a slight extra burden...
...patriotic spirit has written in the margin of the volume, at various places, comments of which the following are specimens: "Good, very good!" "Oh, of course," "A good one," "Right you are," "A trifle exaggerated, friend," "How astonishing," etc., etc, Moreover, this patriotic person has taken pains to prevent his comments from being erased, by writing them in ink. This sort of thing is to be expected in the books of a public library, used by a miscellaneous class of readers; but it is humiliating that a student in Harvard College-for we cannot but assume that a student...