Word: protection
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...enough to cause Yale men to doubt their efficiency. Consequently, the speaker thought that the time was probably not far distant when Yale would stand where Harvard does now. He alluded to the new inter-collegiate athletic rules as the outcome of a desire of the Harvard faculty to protect their students from the beatings received at foot-ball from Yale, and, becoming serious, said in a national sense there were only two colleges whose intellectual and physical contests arrest the attention and arouse the enthusiasm of the American people-Harvard and Yale. He hoped they would never come nearer...
...Academie de la Langue Francaise des Etats Unis" has been organized in Boston to protect the purity of the French language and the work of good teachers of French. The teachers who have formed the organization have decided to exert their best endeavors to check the abuses which have crept into the teaching of French, which has of late often been intrusted to individuals of foreign nationalities who do not scruple to represent themselves as professors of a language whose very rudiments are unknown to them...
...spent annually to carry elections in the interest of liquor men, and on almost every corner discussions of temperance questions arise, the warmth of which reminds one of the old slavery wrangles in ante vellum days. Various laws are now presented in the different states, some tending to protect the business and others looking towards its abolition. It is safe to say that never before were there so many points under dispute upon which temperance men should be prepared to meet their opponents...
...them out. It seems to me very unjust for the faculty to crowd our grounds into a little corner by buildings which occupy our best grounds, and then to say we must raise money ourselves to make a new one; but when we are not to be allowed to protect ourselves from outsiders it is manifestly unfair. Let us have the fence, and a good high one at that...
...heavy as seems, from statements made in the recent meeting of the Athletic Association, to be expected. In expending the large amount of $7000 on the grand stand, the committee reckoned on constructing it in the most permanent manner possible, and, moreover, by providing a temporary roof to protect the seats from the sun and storm, little or no more repairs will be needed for that portion of the structure. It would certainly be advisable to have a surplus fund for repairs, but that fund is not necessary for the success of the scheme...