Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hesitate to point out to the Alumni Weekly a form of ettiquette which should be honored in its observance. Quite properly the Weekly has a prerogative which is not our own; but unless charters of the two papers should be discovered to prove otherwise, neither is entitled to prohibit the other's freedom of the press...
...proposal would operate to deprive these people themselves of the privilege of mailing their own or friends' pictures and would completely prohibit mailing any scientific or ethnological work concerning them. The Governor General considers it so intolerant and such an unwarranted intrusion upon the fundamental rights and privileges of the community at large and of the so-called non-Christian people in particular that it is unworthy of serious consideration...
...Committee on Athletics, having become convinced that the game of football, as at present played by college teams, is brutal, demoralizing to players and spectators, and extremely dangerous, propose to request the Faculty to prohibit the game after the close of the present season...
...confess that I am old- fashioned. I am so old-fashioned that my mind cannot discriminate between a young man hugging a young woman sitting upon a sofa, or hugging her upon the dance hall floor. And if the demands of modesty, and the requirements of sound social custom prohibit such a practice in the one case, I cannot see why they should not prohibit it in the other. For surely, my friends, if there is any choice between the two things, the odds are all in favor of the hugging on the sofa, as the dance is hugging...
Evolution. Attempts to hamper or prohibit the teaching of evolution were condemned in a resolution. "Any restriction on the proper study of scientific fact in regularly established scientific institutions is inimical to the progress of science and the public welfare. . . . A study of the development of mankind, ethnologically, embryologically and anthropologically, is fundamental to the proper comprehension of scientific medicine...