Word: preventive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Every reduction of rates has been in consequence of the revolt of one railway or another against the rule of the combination: J. F. Hudson, Railways and the Republic, p. 217.- (ii) Every restoration of pools has been accompanied by an advance in rates: ibid.- (e) Pooling does not prevent discrimination.- (i) The power of pools enables them to establish monopolies by discriminating against a whole industry, instance the Standard...
...Yale at Springfield in the annual game last fall. Although there were certain features of that game which received adverse comment in practically all of the leading papers of the country, nothing happened which, in the eyes of the Harvard team, or of the Harvard athletic authorities, would prevent the teams of the two universities from meeting in friendly rivalry another year. Accordingly, Harvard, as the defeated team, challenged Yale to a game this fall. In reply Yale refused to consider a challenge unless the Harvard team would formally disavow certain statements made by a Harvard coach,- a thing which...
...cane or monument rush at Williams this year. The new senior society, the Gargoyle, took the initiative in doing away with the time-honored monument rush, when on Friday it voted to use its influence against the affair. Saturday the senior class held a meeting and voted to prevent the rush if possible. The junior class was also favorable to the scheme, and the lower classes will hardly venture to carry on the rush against the wishes of the faculty and upper classmen...
These changes will allow the classifications of the collection to be completed, but the space for doing it is still contracted, and the books will be slowly returned from the books will be slowly returned from the outer depositories. Enough additional shelving is secured to prevent crowding for a few years only; and there will still exist the urgent necessity for a new and extensive reading room outside the present walls. Such a structure should also give increased accommodations for official quarters and professors' rooms. When ultimately this new reading room is secured, the three-story stack in Gore Hall...
Freshmen would do well to take to heart the suggestion that their advisers can do more for them than to prevent their taking two or three courses on the same day and hour. There is a personal relation, wholly apart from the official, possible with an adviser, which can be made of the greatest service to the student. Does this sound like advice to to "swipe?" It is far from it. Until the swiping theory, with its substitution of false for true relations between instructor and student is forgotten, no real good can come of intercourse between...