Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Storer, Miller, Hausen, Mumford, Keith, Winthrop, Howard, Smith, C. F. Gilman, Winters, Barnes, Yocum; R. L. McCook, captain. All candidates for the crew are requested to call at Mr. McCook's room, 34 Holyoke, as soon as possible, to let him know whether they have any recitations that will prevent them from rowing at 3.30 every afternoon; and, if they have any such, to see what arrangements can be made to have their recitations changed...
...well known that young men, when without proper supervision and direction, disregard the most elementary rules of hygiene. They bathe and exercise directly after eating; and, especially, they eat directly after exercising. Now it is to prevent, as far as may be, this latter injurious habit that the Gymnasium is closed at 5.30; for most of the men who exercise there board at Memorial Hall, where the dinner hour is from 5.30 to 6.30. If, therefore, the Gymnasium were kept open till six, those who stayed until that time would have to rush straight from their exercise to their dinner...
...would be necessary for us to become scientific specialists. For this reason it would, in our opinion, be a wise step on the part of the Faculty to add a course of this description to the electives in Chemistry, unless there be decided obstacles, unknown to us, to prevent such action...
...would correct the statement in our Sporting Column of October 14, in regard to the 2-mile bicycle record. The telegram announcing Smith's performance was incorrect, as we discovered too late to prevent the error being printed. The best record at the event is still 6 min 27 sec., by W. S. Clark, New York Bicycle Club, at the American Institute Rink, New York...
...position and to state that men will find it advantageous not to cut. Provided a man write an accurate examination-paper, it is decidedly unfair to take absences into consideration in making up the marks of any elective. In addition, a professor lowers himself who attempts by threats to prevent a man from cutting. We trust that we shall have no further ground for complaint, as this treatment of students serves to put them once more on the footing of children...