Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most acute horror of war, and the finest conscientious scruples about the value of human life should not prevent a man from undertaking work not in the nature of the grim work of the rifle and bayonet. There are many fine ways in which man, and perhaps God, (although about Him we cannot postulate), may be served without the pouring out of blood...
...make arrangements for the entertainment of these distinguished guests the plans for the annual commencement have had to be greatly changed, the graduating exercises being changed from Tuesday to Saturday and some other ceremonies being entirely omitted. The suspension of athletics will prevent any alumni parade or Yale baseball game, and the large part of the classes have chosen to do away with their formal class reunions and give the money that would have thus been spent to the university to help relieve the financial crisis which it is facing. Those who will receive degrees...
...program of military training, and the officers detailed here will be continued on duty as long as possible. This means that the Government feels unable to pay for subsistence or to supply additional instructors. The first of these things is the more serious because it is likely to prevent many good men from service in the corps by reason of the cost of board. Additional instructors are not necessary since the arrival of the French officers. With their aid, and the instructors already here, the Corps will enjoy better teaching than any training corps has ever had in this country...
...year of study immediately. To do so will mean that men in receiving their degrees will have less theoretical knowledge. Laws are being made by the fierce justice of armies. The whole world is threatened by a great danger before which the petty illegalities which laws are made to prevent are nothing...
Although we may feel it our duty to help drive the iron plough of war, we can seek, by our attendance, to prevent it entirely uprooting the fine flower of culture...