Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Last year several of the larger colleges made a distinct effort to prevent "yapping" on the baseball field, and achieved considerable success; but umpires still fall to enforce the rules which limit the remarks of players; and student players, who get their training directly and indirect from professional players, are constantly tempted to do what they know to be done-- and done without censure--by the heroes of the American and National Leagues. We like to belive that recent Harvard teams, though by no means perfect, have honestly tried to resist such temptations and to play a clean game
...also decided to construct a wire cage partly around and above the circle from which the hammer is thrown to prevent a wild throw from crashing into the crowd...
...annual intercollegiate gymnastic championship meet at Princeton on March 28. The league has entrusted the details of management to G. N. Bissell, manager of the Princeton team. An important change in arrangements was decided upon at the meeting; the preliminaries will be held in the afternoon in order to prevent the meet from dragging out past midnight as it has in the past...
...dredging for the foundations of the Cambridge Pier has been done. The work of driving the piles for the pier will be begun the middle of next week and will require about five days. Special machinery has been devised to break up the ice on the river and thus prevent any delay to the work...
...should apply in advance at the Union Office for tickets, since admission will be by card only. The number of seats is limited to about 400, and last evening over a third of them had been disposed of. No seats are reserved, the above regulation being adopted merely to prevent the customary overcrowding. The reading will be open only to members of the Union, who must show their cards when applying for tickets...