Word: preventive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...large spruce trees, which border the observatory grounds on the Concord avenue side, must be cut down. These trees are greatly valued by the observatory, not only for their beauty, but also because they shut off the grounds so completely from the street, and at night prevent the glare of the electric lights from interfering with the use of the telescopes...
Inasmuch as there have been several cases of measles in college, it seems important to re-emphasize the need for personal care to prevent the spread of the disease. Two of the cases have been traced to visits to a popular preparatory school in which there have been a number of cases. A third individual caught the disease from one of the others in a game of cards when that other was feeling slightly ill and was being thus cheered...
...Customs Union is more desirable than reciprocity because (a) it would not be likely to be terminated on slight pretext (b) it would prevent frequent change in our tariff policy...
...unnecessary for the protection of society since it does not tend more than life imprisonment to prevent other crimes, either (a) by the criminal himself, or (b) by others, for (1) It is the certainty and not the severity of the punishment which deters the criminal, and, (2) The murderer dreads the death penalty no more than life imprisonment...
Yesterday in the State Legislature, D. A. Buckley, of Cambridge, introduced a petition for legislation prohibiting the public exhibition of football and such "as will prevent the slugging or roughness of said games when played between teams representing colleges or other educational institutions...