Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...letter which appears in the CRIMSON this morning for the second time, urging students to refrain from taking part in any disturbance at the opening of the college year, should appeal to the good sense of every Harvard man. We have no sympathy with those who look upon Bloody Monday as a sacred institution and the Faculty in their opposition to it as a body of ruthless iconoclasts. Such a view, for one thing, makes much of what is really a very trivial matter. The fact is that the observances in the Yard of the first Monday of the year...
...undergraduates in Harvard University to refrain from taking part in any disturbance at the opening of the College year...
...disposed to believe that with these few the literary skill of the entire College is exhausted. There must be more clever writers in Harvard than ever contribute to either Monthly, Advocate, or Lampoon. Whether from laziness, or because the prizes in view are not tempting enough, these men persistently refrain from doing their part to raise the standard of the papers which are the only visible index of Harvard's literary achievment...
...captains request the members of their respective classes to refrain from the use of water-syringes, and reflecting glasses, and not to interfere with any of the players during the game...
...GREENE.U. OF P. GAME.- The baseball management request that spectators refrain from crowding around the reporters' and players' benches...