Word: prevents
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...quarter-mile lies between Boardman of Yale and Barclay of Cambridge. Both have records of 49 seconds; but Boardman's injury last June and Barclay's recent arrival in a strange climate will probably prevent any fast time being made. The entries for all the events follow...
...Klux movement," by William Garrott Brown 91. The history of the whole period of the Reconstruction of the Southern States after the Civil War is, especially in the North, comparatively little known. The "Ku Klux Klan," a secret fraternity organized to oppose the carpet bag politicians and to prevent the dominance of the negroes, was a society unique and curious in its aims and work, and an account of it, as well as of the state of southern politics from which it arose, is full of most dramatic interest. Mr. Brown is well qualified to deal with his subject from...
...Boardman, Yale '02, the 220 yards and quarter-mile runner received injuries in the Yale games last Friday which according to reports from Yale will prevent his entering the dual games on Saturday. J. E. Haigh '03, the best man in the 100 yard dash, has a strained muscle that will prevent his doing any work until Wednesday, and that is likely to hurt his chances in Saturday's games...
Lack of originality does not prevent the last Lampoon from being quite as entertaining as usual. The front page is an excellent take-off of the "Bugville" pictures that have recently crawled into so many periodicals. The drawing on the first page, too, with its faint suggestion of Peter Newell, deserves some mention...
...present projects is not open to a single objection that was seriously urged against the plan of 1894. In that year it was argued before the Earbor and Land commission, by eminent counsel who were retained to prevent the erection of new houses back of Beacon street, that any stopping of the ebb of the tide from the Charles River Basin twice daily would injure certain channels of the harbor, but in opposition to this contention several of the most eminent engineers of the state have expressed the opinion that the tidal scour theory has no application to the conditions...