Word: preventive
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...resignation of Captain Severance was occasioned by his serious illness, which, though it may not prevent his joining the crew later, would have incapacitated him for the duties of active captain during the major part of the season...
...another game between Harvard and Dartmouth in case today's game is not played and Harvard defeats Yale. Both teams are limited in the number of trips they can take, and both are laboring under financial disadvantages. We hope that the building of an indoor rink in Boston will prevent the recurrence of a like dilemma, or that the Athletic Association will see fit to provide some means by which the hockey team can be sure of good ice throughout the season...
Tonight a University team meets Yale in a branch of sport which for some reason for other is regarded with less interest at Harvard than at almost any other university. The miserable facilities of the Hemenway Gymnasium account in part for this feeling, for they tend to prevent many men from playing basketball; but even so it is hard to understand why there are only 20 candidates for the team out of about 1450 men eligible to play. With such a small squad to begin with, and with a schedule shorter than most of the other teams have...
Since the Laval game a week ago, the University team has had 4 days of practice, which has been for the most part light, in order to prevent any possibility of the men becoming over trained. On Thursday, however, a 15-minute scrimmage was held in which the University team had little difficulty in scoring on the second. The game today promises to be close, with the chances favoring Harvard...
...attitude towards it. Or possibly the authorities object to having the undergraduates make too much of a business of what should properly be a pastime, by entering into competition with the outside theatres. But a pastime becomes less pleasurable when attended with financial loss, and larger audiences would prevent the occurrence of this unfortunate contingency...