Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...halt must be called. And this is virtually what has been done. It has been found that some men neglect their college work for their athletis, and the college in defence of its own position, that is, for the best interests of the students has found it necessary to prohibit such men from participating in any athletic contests. In return for this, done for the students alone, the college is made to bear the brunt of undergraduate criticism. But in this case, as too often, the undergraduate opinion is hasty and unjust. We believe firmly in an open expression...
...Dodge, '91, second on the affirmative, said that prohibition is the only right method, as drinking tends to crime; therefore, intemperance must dealt with in the same manner as crime, by prohibition, not by license. Prohibition will prohibit, but it will take time, as is always the case with great reforms. High license will merely connive at the evil, prohibition will stifle...
...students at Ann Arbor have petitioned the legislature to prohibit the sale of liquors within five miles of the University...
...details of the recent meeting held by the Yale College faculty have just been made public. The faculty voted to prohibit all athletic sports in the future, owing to the fact that the students disobeyed the injunction put upon them previous to the Yale-Harvard game, and celebrated their victory in the most frolicsome style. A strong effort is being made by the students to have the vote rescinded, and thus far they have succeeded in getting the faculty to hold the matter in abeyance for one week. Should the faculty refuse to reconsider the matter, all college athletics will...
...Whereas, In the opinion of this club to prohibit undergraduates from taking part in intercollegiate athletics would not tend to correct the alleged abuses, but would be an unwise step, detrimental to the best interests of the undergraduates and the college; and that such abuses, if they exist, are not likely to be cured simply by confining the contests to the New England States...