Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...package of yard tickets to some accomplice, who would stand in the neighborhood of the gate and sell the tickets to whoever wished to purchase them. The unpleasant results of this dishonest dealing are so apparent that we would urge the class committee to take every possible precaution to prevent a repetition...
...police commissioners of Cleveland have appointed 25 special policemen for service about the Cleveland rolling mills, ordered the sanitary police on duty, with two vehicles for expediting arrests, and have taken steps to prevent the threatened raids on the military armories...
...this way he will be enabled to have a monopoly of the tickets, and dispose of them at whatever price or to whatever persons he may choose for his greatest pecuniary gain. We would urge upon all the members of '82 to do everything in their power to prevent this movement, that has been found in previous years to be so pregnant of results that must mar the best features of class day, the comparative privacy and strictly college character of the exercises and company. All admire and are willing to aid the energy of those who strive to earn...
...left the amount of work he thinks he can do with profit in three years. This is one consideration in choosing electives. Another and an equally important consideration is the arrangement in the groups for examinations. Of course where there are so many good courses it is impossible to prevent several desirable courses from conflicting. In fact it often becomes absolutely necessary to give up some excellent course from the fact that it continually conflicts with other courses a little more desirable...
...fire is attributed to a coal from a cigarette, which, dropping in a large pile of papers, lay unnoticed until the papers, books and an adjacent window curtain were in a blaze. There was but one person in the room and he had to do some lively work to prevent a serious fire. The damage done to the carpet and furniture will probably amount...