Word: prohibitional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sixth clause in the "Powers" reads as follows: "To prohibit any man who shows an indisposition to respect the recommendation of the Council, from becoming and remaining a member of any college activity subject to open competition." These words can be taken in only one sense--that the Council as a body assumes censorial rights in all undergraduate activities "open to competition." Consequently it would appear that in this clause the Council elevates its powers of jurisdiction over those of the Faculty, which long since ceased to perform as active judge in questions arising in undergraduate activities. Surely this sixth...
...agnostic and Thomas Paine a deist, neither of them an atheist. The usual decencies of intelligent controversy do not necessitate that a man be mealymouthed, either in the statement of his own views, or in his attack upon the views of his adversary, but they do at least prohibit misstatements of fact. It may be, to be sure, that TIME quoted Mr. Cameron Rogers* in its choice of terms, but it is sometimes hard to tell when TIME is quoting and when TIME is merely trying to be funny in the college humor fashion, and in either event TIME might...
Your several circular letters advising me that my subscription would shortly expire have been received. I am well aware of this expiration and assure you that I enjoy reading your publication, but regret that certain conditions prohibit me from renewing my subscription at present. As my address shows I am living at an hotel where the help are very careless with mail. I have failed to receive quite a number of copies of TIME and have gone to the office several times to get my mail and found transient guests, lounge lizards, and lobby loiterers reading my paper, which they...
...matter of fact--as in most matters of this sort--the truth probably lies between the two: which should not, however, prohibit any vagabond from attending Professor Parker's lecture on the subject at 10 o'clock in the Geological Lecture Room...
...pending bill is adopted, Kansas will still prohibit the sale of cigarets to minors, as does many another state...