Word: protection
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...mile cross-country run is no slight task and the supervision of a competent trainer is necessary not only to help the team to win, but also to protect the men from the physical risk of zeal untempered by knowledge. Rumor says that other teams than the cross-country have also been left uncared for, but to none of them are the dangers of bodily harm arising from such neglect more imminent...
...humiliating, undemocratic, and unsuccessful. Few will, I think, agree with him. In my opinion, at any rate, cheating in examinations is so rare as to be almost negligible. Nor ought there to be a sense of humiliation because of the presence of a proctor; he is there to protect the honest against the unfair competition of the possibly dishonest. To call that "espionage" is, it seems to me, improper; as well take offence at the mildly inquiring eye of the policeman on your beat. The so-called honor system which Mr. Macgowan advocates...
...there was much discontent among the laboring classes. As a remedy for these evils, the workingmen formed the socialist party. In England, successive royal commissions appointed by Parliament to investigate the grievances of the workmen, accomplished nothing. The working classes were driven to organize themselves politically in order to protect their rights. In Italy corruption was the cause of the socialist movement. Here the new party has not gained great power in the government, but it has driven out the dishonest men by opposing to them honest men in every election. In all countries, except the United States, political parties...
...order to protect the household effects and property of the thousands of homeless people, the Chelsea militia was called out shortly after noon. Early in the course of the fire, help was sent for and men and apparatus came from Lynn, Cambridge, Everett, Revere, Winthrop, and other cities as far distant as Waltham...
...indifferently or with forced smiles while the same few, from self-appointed authority, make jokes of lectures and nuisances of themselves. It is a College tradition not to bear witness against a fellow-student; but there is an equally well-established tradition that College men can protect their rights when occasion arises...