Word: preventive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...five-year agreement with the Harvard Boat Club may prevent the adoption of the undergraduate rule this year in rowing, and until that question is definitely settled no correct idea of the material at hand can be obtained, The track athletic team likewise, is bound by the rules of the Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association, and in this there are so many colleges that it is impossible to say whether or not it will adopt the undergraduate rule. The nine is not bound by any agreement, and it is almost safe to say that if it meets Harvard and Princeton...
...said, very careful and scholarly, but it has not the life to commend it to the ordinary reader, and the pains taken with it will not make up to him for its length. The fact that in spite of this length the substance is of excellent material, does not prevent its being...
...defend their privileges against unlicenced dealers: No. Am. CXLIV. 499. - (c) The fewer the saloons the less the political power: No. Am. vol. 144. p. 500. - (d) It has all the good features of prohibition without menacing personal rights: And Rev.IX. 25-26; Nation XXXVI. 273. - (e) Tends to prevent use of spirits: No. Am. vol. 144, p. 500. - (f) Has proven its value: Forum iii, 152. - (g) Can be enforced: Forum ii, 410 - (h). The argument that high licence should be defeated because it indefinitely postpones prohibition is an admission of the efficacy of the proposed legislation...
When you are asked to speak sit down and write your most intimate friend what you are going to say. Perhaps you'll find you haven't anything to say. Then very likely the probable death of your grandmother will prevent your accepting the invitation. If you find you have something to say pick out the most important points and decide how many minutes you intend to give each. Above all do not permit yourself to change your plan. - Napoleon said "if you set out to take Vienna take Vienna." Make up your mind what you are going...
This action will prevent the sophomore theatricals, and all concerts by the fresh man musical clubs. A considerable revenue to the freshman crew will thus be cut off, and an opportunity of training men for the varisty clubs will be lost...