Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with perhaps too broad a scope and with hopes too brilliant. But then it can be answered that only a magazine of so high a character could be worthy of the support of the entire university and its friends. Still, the failure of the Register will be likely to prevent any future schemes of such a sort for a long time to come. Nevertheless, the Register was called into being to supply an actual need of the college at the time; its fault was, that it more than supplied that want. Now that that paper has died, the same want...
...liable to arrest, or disgracing themselves or the college. What matters it if the Boston press does "vent its indignation?" That's what newspapers are for. Let the class of '85 show themselves gentlemen, at least, as much as the upper classes, but let not their "dignity" and faintheartedness prevent their trying to make their college days what they should be, the pleasantest part of their-lives, as well as the most profitable. As to the support of their crew, nine, etc., it may be that the class is not so strong, financially, as some of the others. There have...
...deficit for 1880-81, amounting to $34,469.19, is the largest which the college has ever incurred, and has forced the corporation to consider anxiously the measures necessary to prevent the recurrence of such a reduction of capital. After deducting from the deficit all those expenses of the year which can properly be called extraordinary, there remains an excess over receipts to the amount of, at least, $15,000. Since the beginning of the year a gift of $100,000 from the estate of the late Eben Wright has been received for carrying on the library. The corporation will, this...
...have spent some time at college, and when they have come to recognize the undoubted advantages and pleasures accruing therefrom, they are only too desirous of devoting some time to acquiring at least a little skill in playing some instrument. There are many reasons, and obvious ones, too, that prevent a man from carrying out his wishes in this matter; but the most potent one is that very often he cannot devote the time to it to allow him to go to Boston to meet an instructor. It would be an easy matter for the university to obtain some teacher...
...president and secretary of the national board of health advise that all post-office employees be revaccinated to prevent the spread of small...