Word: preventive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...CHRISTOBAL SALTS prevent biliousness...
...celebration after the Pennsylvania game last Saturday is another case in point. Yet on that night the watchman in the Yard twice tried to prevent men from marching around, telling them that if they were going to celebrate they must keep out of the Yard. This seems to us exceedingly unjust, for the Yard is the right and proper place for such a celebration, and there it ought to be permitted...
...Faculty as well as the student body working for the interests of Harvard on its athletic side, encouraging the crews and teams and sharing in the enthusiasm which so obviously helps them to win, it seems that there is need of an organization of the enthusiasm itself which shall prevent all violent and dangerous demonstration. By having an inspiriting mass meeting occasionally, by having some well-led cheering and marching on the evening after a victory, doing away with any prolonged noise and rioting and especially with the use of firearms, this object would be accomplished. Further, it seems that...
...week a treaty has been published, entered into by the five upper classmen clubs, regarding future elections from sophomore classes. The arrangement now restricts the system of electioneering, which, with the growth of the clubs has become a nuisance. The new system will be fair to all alike, will prevent a great amount of useless effort and should result more nearly in securing the best men from each class, as more time will be given for becoming acquainted with them...
...Almanac, 1893, p. 84.- (c) Public lands to be held for actual settlers only, and lands not so settled to be given up; ibid.- (d) They have introduced hare-brained measures and class legislation into Congress: Index to Congressional Record, 52d and 53d Congresses.- i. e. (1) To prevent dealings in options and futures and the founding of trusts and combines.- (2) To establish a uniform rate of interest in the United States, and to prohibit usury.- (3) To prohibit the coinage of gold.- (4) To give labor to the unemployed by immense public works...