Word: preventive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college course of a poor student at Harvard is the cost of furnishing his room when he first comes to Cambridge. A considerable outlay is necessary, and it must all be made in one year. This is probably one of the chief of those considerations which so often prevent poor men from trying to come to college. Both students and members of the faculty have appreciated this fact, and two years ago steps were first taken to obviate the difficulty. A considerable amount of second hand furniture was collected in one way and another by a committee of officers...
...benefactors have bequeathed for your use; but you are responsible to the classes which will come after you for the preservation of this trust. It is not yours to paint or to destroy; it is yours only for a time. And plainly enough it is your duty to prevent any one from injuring it. Evidently you cannot fulfill your obligations so long as you say to the depredators: "We are very, very indignant; but we are all brothers, and perhaps you were intoxicated; so we'll pay the damages and screen...
...entirely contrary to the spirit of Harvard life. The amount of genuine feeling which this affair has stirred up is unprecedented, and this, together with the extreme measures which were adopted at the meeting, will free the name of Harvard students from all suspicions of vandalism, and will prevent such disgraceful acts from occurring again...
...race they meet in. Yale, Princeton and Harvard should be the order for the 100 and 220. Harvard will win either the quarter or half, and possibly both, and in the mile will be able to make a good struggle for a place; Lowell's weak ankle will prevent him from doing as good work as he could otherwise accomplish, however...
...party consisting of father, mother and daughter who undertake a journey from Paris to Dieppe and through a practical joke find themselves the next morning at Paris, whence they had started. The remainder of the play is devoted to the endeavors of the perpetrators of the joke to prevent the party from discovering the trick...