Word: preventive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mott Haven Team of '88 was stolen from the Trophy Room of the Gymnasium last Tuesday or earlier. The Trophy Room has heretofore been open during the entire day, but owing to this tbeft Dr. Sargent has considered it necessary to have the room closed so as to prevent any further loss of photographs and trophies...
...helped to rise. The third class, the criminal, is the hardest to arouse any sympathy for. Men regard the criminal as an outlaw, and think no punishment too severe for him. This is not the way to stop crime. Every one knows that the prospect of suffering does not prevent a man from sinning. The only sure way to help the criminals is to labor to change their characters, their habits, and their hearts. This is what the Salvation Army is trying to do. It offers work to the criminals, when all the rest of the world turns away from...
...proved by the fact that at the very time the vote was passed, football authorities were on the point of submitting the result of a thorough investigation into the injuries received by players during the past season, together with a number of proposed rules admirably adapted to prevent the repetition of such accidents. This is but one instance of a very strong disposition to reform football which has not been allowed a fair chance to take effect...
...solution of the problem. - (a) Greatly reduces drunkenness. - (1) By reducing the number of saloons, makes better control possible, and increases profits of saloon keeper. - (2) Makes a license too valuable to risk loss of it by selling to drunkards. - (3) Makes it to saloon keeper's interest to prevent unlicensed selling. - (b) Takes the saloon out of politics. - (1) Where tried, it supersedes all other legislation. - (2) Thus liquor dealer's have no motive for united political action...
...game today, and the final remedy for these abuses is accordingly not to be sought in any amendment of the rules. This does not mean that no such amendment should be attempted: far from it. Much may unquestionably be done by a strict enforcement of more severe rules, to prevent the recurrence of the most objectionable features of ungentlemanly football. The fear of penalties will prevent overt acts; it will not affect in the least the spirit which inspires the acts, and which must be killed if football is to live in the esteem which the game deserves...