Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Immediately a Republican legislature, pledged to direct senatorial election, chose a Democratic senator to support that movement. And next, to remove the great danger of corruption at the direct primaries, the people forced the unwilling legislature to pass a genuine corrupt practices act, which is so severe as to prevent further corruption at the polls. Finally, the people decided that they would vote for the candidates for President and Vice-President themselves. Hence the delegates from Oregon to the next national convention will go instructed directly by their people...
...Important and exacting public duties did not prevent him from devoting much time and thought to the affairs of the College...
...Concord, N. H., this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, provided the weather is favorable. The game has twice been postponed; and as the Freshmen are scheduled to play Yale in the Boston Arena on Saturday afternoon, the St. Paul's game will probably be cancelled, if conditions prevent the game today...
...team as a whole seemed much slower than usual and did not follow back or cover their men at the critical moments. The defence, although they advanced the puck very well, did not body check sufficiently to prevent individual men from scoring. The line-up: UNIVERSITY TEAM. BOSTON HOCKEY CLUB. Gorham, Houston, l.e. r.e., Foster Pierce, Palmer, l.c. r.c., Winsor Childs, r.c. l.c., Townsend Seamans, Whidden, Pratt, r.e. l.e., Hicks Huntington, c.p. c.p., Lovering Foster, Blackall, p. p., Graustein Chadwick, Gardner, g. g., Canterbury, Smart...
...been undertaken for improving the conditions under which the undergraduates do their work. The Reading Room in Gore Hall is the only place where a large part of the student body can obtain many of the books in which reading is required, and the necessary rules of the Library prevent borrowing the books most in demand. Under present conditions men are forced to do a great deal of reading in Gore Hall...