Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Athletic Association has voted to hold a fall athletic meeting to consist wholly of handicap events. The meeting will probably be held on Jarvis field, as there are several objections to using the new track this fall. This will prevent any bicycle race. The events will be, 100 yards dash, 220 yards dash, 1-4 mile run, 1-2 mile run, 1 mile run, 1 mile walk, 120 yards hurdle race. running high jump, running broad jump, pole vault, throwing the hammer and putting the shot-all handicap. It is hoped that the experiment will succeed in bringing out both...
...captain alone, but the executive committee, who would undoubtedly be largely influenced by the captain, select the Harvard nines for the future. This will relieve the captain of a little responsibility, and will give the college at large more voice in base-ball matters, while it will prevent any persons from complaining that the nine is run in favor of any class or clique. The captain should of course have full power when the executive committee cannot meet...
...perhaps be a matter of small moment were it not that the public is prone to consider success or failure in gaining an honor the infallible test of a student's attainments. There are instances in which ill health, mobility to pursue a continuous course or other unavoidable circumstances prevent a student of genuine merit from reaching the required standard of excellence; and she is consequently, through no fault of her own, placed, in the judgment of outsiders, upon a level with the incompetent and the lazy - a fact which may seriously interfere with her future success in gaining desirable...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Whenever the examination period comes, the undergraduate begins to ponder upon the injustice and hardship of this world and wonders whether life is worth living after all. He constantly notices cases where the greatest injustice occurs and wonders if it is not possible to prevent such things. It certainly does seem hard in the first place that the examinations, which are to give us the main part of our marks for the year, should all be placed at the end of the year when the weather is least suited for studying. In the Law School...
...bill to prevent corrupt practices at elections has passed its second reading in the British House of Commons...