Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...attempt is made by American institutions to prevent extravagant expenditure on the part of students by prohibiting gaming, horse-racing, contracting debts with very long credit and high rate of interest, or driving four-in-hands; but President Eliot thinks it will be fortunate if such regulations are not needed before our institutions are half as old as Oxford...
This, however, need not prevent a return to class races if the crews will be satisfied to use the club boats this spring, and defer the purchase of University shells till next year. A class race, even in our club boats, would be far more interesting than club races can ever be, and would insure the entrance of crews better trained than they have been for the two years past, and class feeling would act as a stimulus to greater exertion...
...twelve o' clock P. M., with the prospect of four hours' steady work before me, and with the (at another time) joyful sound of revelry in the room below me, I waive all respect of persons, and protest against the fiends of the north entry of Matthews, who prevent my neighbors and myself from doing necessary work. I had supposed, it seems fallaciously, that we were all bound by certain feelings of consideration for each other, and that the man who will want quiet to-morrow would feel it his duty, or let us say policy, to observe the rule...
...Dartmouth. To think that we should have to get our news in such a roundabout way ! The dear things have got back from their scarlet-fever vacation, and are enjoying the skating and coasting. They too are suffering from examinations; with this difference, that in order to prevent cramming, the day of the ordeal is not announced beforehand. Well, it's bad as it is, but let us be thankful for our advantages; forewarned is forearmed...
...viewed as boys or men. Now if, for example, when any one talks ridiculously about getting drunk, or shamefully about buying fraudulent examination-papers, the hearers were to let it be understood that they considered such talk as the former silly, and the latter disgraceful, they would ultimately prevent much of the indecent talk now so familiar. We cannot expect to put an end to vicious practices themselves by keeping the fact prominently in view that they are held unworthy of gentlemen, because some persons in college do not feel that this is much of an objection...