Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dual track meet with Princeton at Cambridge on May 24 was approved by the Committee. The expense and length of time of a trip to Ithaca will prevent a track meet with Cornell...
There was a small fire in the trunk room of Claverly Hall yesterday afternoon. The fire, however, was stopped in time to prevent serious damage to the property stored in the room...
...attack" a slight backbone. The story centres about Old Bill's discovery of a German plot, his blowing up of the strategic bridge, and his subsequent court martial and award of the V. C. But all this is of little moment, except to hold the production together and prevent its deteriorating into vaudeville...
...privacy and simplicity of the last rites in honor of Theodore Roosevelt will not prevent the American people from standing as one great mourning family at the dead chieftain's bier today. The tributes that have been paid to him by the great and little of the nation--of all nations--are of perfect sincerity, and sometimes of a degree of emotion that almost chokes their utterance, but all are inadequate, all seem commonplace in the light of his own greatness, which has not died with him, which cannot fade from the earth, and which will, with time, inspire...
...Yesterday evening to discuss the problem of producing a University and Freshman seven this year. The enthusiasm thus displayed indicates that the undergraduates are looking and hoping for as speedy a return to the activities of ante-bellum days as may be possible--and there seems little to prevent this being accomplished. If the squads are interested enough to organize themselves and practice without any definite hope of an outside match, it seems only fair to assume that those in a position to do so will make every effort to permit a short schedule, or possibly merely a game with...