Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...leave for Philadelphia this afternoon. That they will be subjected to the fatigue of travelling within so short a time of the game is a disadvantage which they must necessarily feel, but neither that nor the lack of any considerable number of Harvard men to cheer them on, should prevent them from putting up a plucky, sportsmanlike game; and that, after all, is the most in dispensable requisite for a victory...
...best judgment of the class as to the fitness of the men to be chosen should not in every case prevail. We urge upon every member of the senior class to do all that he honestly can to this end. And, first of all, he should let nothing prevent his being present at the meeting...
...second eleven scored twice, once on straight football and the other time on a fluke. The first eleven had no trouble in scoring when they got the ball, to be sure, but were apparently unable to prevent the second from scoring. Adams played well for the second and Dayton ran well for the first...
...Permanent arrangements would tend to make Harvard's athletic policy stable.- (a) Would help settle temporary difficulties.- (b) Would thus prevent frivolous suspension of contests. (c) Present suspension of football might have been avoided had there been a standing agreement when the trouble arose...
...Pemanent arrangements would prevent suspension of other contests in case of disagreement over one.- (a) Had not the five-year rowing agreement with Yale expired this year there would probably have been a boat race in 1896: Harvard Graduates' Magazine, Sept., 1895, p. 113.- (b) Had there been some standing agreement, baseball and track athletics would probably have continued...