Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hardly a student in college-certainly not one rooming outside the yard, who would not be benefited by a new dormitory. The comfort of men who never have boarded, and never will board, at Memorial, depends on the success of the Dining Association to keep prices down and prevent the boarding places from being crowded ; and in the same way, the competition that another good dormitory would exert would lower the exorbitant rent that rooms in any desirable locality now command. We must have another soon, and it is certainly better for the college to get the income from...
...urging the students to be present on this occasion and thus show their appreciation of the crew's splendid work last year. But the dinner last fall was such a fiasco and the recent meeting was so poorly attended that it shows the need of an earnest appeal to prevent the coming dinner from being a failure...
...valuable courts have been destroyed by the new athletic grounds and their loss is sorely felt. If the nine is obliged to practice on Jarvis in the spring, the number of courts cannot be greatly increased over the present limited supply and much discontent will be the result. To prevent this, the Tennis Association would do well to see if it cannot procure some additional land, perhaps in the vicinity of Divinity Hall, or even at Yale the students do not complain of the distance they are obliged to go to reach their athletic grounds at Hamilton Park...
...books of reference; but it is also due to the fact that the fear of showing their freshness, which influences many of the actions of the freshman-keeps men from going into the library and finding out how to take books out. This seems a trivial reason to prevent men from getting books which they really want to read, and should not for a moment keep them from getting at once into the way of using the library. To prevent any little inconveniences which might arise at the first attempt, we shall show how easily this can be done. Upon...
...that particular and hopes that the fact, "That Yale the college itself bears the larger proportion of the expense of the room, while at Harvard it would be impossible to obtain from the college more than the mere use of a room without light or heat," will not prevent the students from starting a reading room for themselves. Verily, Yale is not behind the times in all respects.-[News...