Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...insinuations which, if appearing anywhere else, would be branded as false and utterly baseless. If the Harvard press must abrogate to itself the powers and regalia of censor we trust it will gird up its robes of office instead of allowing them to trail in the mire. We cannot refrain from expressing our deep sorrow that the "old ally" should so far have forgotten its role of "ally" as to give its more powerful "ally" occasion to lament the apparent desertion of the "old ally." We have discovered, however, in our limited experience, that community, and antagonism of interests...
...smaller men with muscles less startling but far greater will-power to punish themselves in the contest? And when it came to preparations for a boat-race against a college with which rivalry, if not exactly deadly, was a tradition of long standing, would it be in us to refrain from securing what advice was possible from professionals who make oarsmanship their means of livelihood? Probably not. Certainly while rowing had a precarious existence at American colleges, and there was no large body of graduate oarsmen on whom to lean for advice and from whom to beg the arduous...
...sparring will be good, as it always is, if there is no slugging shown. And we would like to beg the crowd to refrain from any ejaculations when a well-aimed and telling blow takes effect. These customary expressions of approval are entirely out of place, and are apt to "rattle" the contestants...
Bribery and corruption at Yale: - The faculty of Yale College has offered the college a whole day on Washington's birthday on the condition the freshmen refrain from the usual procession on that day. [And Dr. Dwight is a clergyman, tool...
...unhealthy state of the basement of Weld to which attention is called in a communication is highly inexcusable. While we are convinced that it is only necessary to call the attention of the proper authorities to this evil in order to have it remedied, we cannot refrain from condemning their negligence which gave rise to the nuisance. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure...