Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard kept men enough, and of good enough quality, to prevent Brown scoring; and although Harvard in turn could not score, that is to it a matter of inferior moment to the winning of the Crimson's principal game, namely, the contest with Yale...
...this "too filthy" "breeding-place of disease." Then, lest our undergarments become carriers of disease, he begs us refrain from washing our "light clothing" in this "laundry-tub." Can this mean other than that Mr. Woodbridge '17 is holding the University authorities libel for criminal negligence in failing to prevent their students from firing with sickness? Is he not casting slurs upon the character of the swimming team manager? For surely it would be only the most unscrupulous of persons who would fall to report such irregularities as the correspondent alleges are so obvious...
...truthfully believe precaution is taken to prevent swimmers from entering the tank without a thorough cleansing in the showers. Furthermore a notice is posted in a conspicuous place to the above effect, and several members of the swimming team attest remembering it. Nor do these gentlemen recollect seeing the "water so milky the bottom could not be seen...
...relays, to prevent confusion, the runners will cover a designated number of laps instead of parts of a mile. There are five relays on the tentative program, in one of which each man runs two laps, another with three laps for each contestant, one of six, and another of twelve. There is also a medley relay, which totals 22 laps, and a team race has been arranged for the distance men, the scoring in this to be on the same basis as in, the cross-country...
This notion is now proved erroneous. Snobbishness did for, years prevent the highest efficiency in athletics. Harvard had students of the highest order in all of the branches, but team work was defective. It was an orchestra of virtuosi, none quite willing to sacrifice personality to discipline. When it did yield to discipline it smeared--shall we say Yale...