Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great advantage over us, both in base-ball and other branches of athletics. Next year, with the proper training, we should be able to put in the field a nine that could bring honor and credit to Harvard, and we earnestly hope that the faculty will not prevent that nine from contending upon equal terms with those of our rival universities...
...lower classes who play, in order that as the college is foremost in tennis now, it may remain so in the future. Under the present state of affairs any one who wishes is given a chance to play, and there seems to be no reason to prevent skill from being developed, wherever it may exist...
...package is requested to sign his name, and to state before June 1st the number of tickets of each kind he will require. The committee hope that by adopting this plan they will remove all necessity for the private sale of tickets to members of the class and so prevent all speculation in them. The price of tickets will be: Yard tickets, 25 cents; Memorial, 50 cents; Tree, 75 cents; Saunders, 75 cents. The price of a package of tickets will be $11.00. After the book is removed from Bartlett's no less than a package will be sold...
...most promising plan would be to build a fence of the description given by one of your correspondents along Jarvis and Oxford streets. This would not be so great an eyesore as a fence completely around the grounds, and would effectually prevent any one seeing a game without paying. For when the laboratory and dormitory on North avenue are finished there will be no entrances to the field except such as can be easily guarded...
...tricks to deceive those who are watching them. They will pull a very slow or a very quick stroke, as fancy pleases them; or they will row a long distance in good form, and then suddenly appear to be "all broken up." They find it almost impossible, however, to prevent someone seeing their boat. For when it is taken out of the boat house and placed in the water it is right under the noses of people in the street above. The possibility of a long and careful study of this delicate piece of boat-building is precluded, however...