Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reports the tennis tournament between Trinity and Amherst proved a very interesting event, and promises to be continued in the future. Yale has now taken up the project and proposes to play Trinity, but the lateness of the season will probably prohibit any further negotiations this fall. Last spring we advocated the establishment of an intercollegiate tennis association, which should arrange matches between various colleges. Communications were sent to several colleges, but so many negative answers were received that it seemed that the time had not yet come, and the project was necessarily abandoned. We take this opportunity, when...
...services of the trainer, Mr. Robinson, who has served Harvard athletes so well for several years, are in future to be dispensed with. The end to be gained by depriving men of professional trainers for running, jumping, etc., we cannot clearly perceive. The Yale faculty have refused to prohibit the base-ball games with professionals. The Princeton faculty have as yet taken no formal action, but have the matter under consideration. They may take a middle course, and prohibit all out-of-town games with professionals. Whatever they do in the athletic line should certainly be done after consultation with...
...Advertiser says in regard to Yale's refusal to prohibit playing with professionals: "The general view at Harvard seems to be that the rule had better be carried out and the question of Yale's acquiescence left to the settlement of the inter-collegiate base-ball convention, which may decide that any college nine which plays a professional nine shall itself be rated as professional. Such a step would prove a more effectual argument to Yale than the courteous ones hitherto used...
...next debate in English 6 will take place March 29; subject, "Resolved, that the bill now pending in Congress to prohibit Chinese immigration should become a law." Affirmative, Messrs. Mayberry, Baird, Lothrop. Negative, Messrs. Wait, Oxnard, Snow...
...bill has been introduced by Senator Vest to prohibit the issue of national bank-notes. The new Congressional Library and the Chinese treaties were discussed in the Senate, and the Peruvian question also came up. The Indian appropriation bill was passed by the House...