Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard is not the only place where students celebrate occasionally. At Yale last Saturday, a senior was arrested and held in bonds for assaulting an officer who endeavored to restrain the ardor of the students at the celebration of the appointment of Prof. Phelps...
...freshmen is not among the improbabilities, we wish gently to hint that the celebration ensuing would be more satisfactory for all concerned if it were to be kept within the bounds prescribed by the circular issued by the faculty. We all know that it is no easy task to restrain the enthusiasm consequent upon a hard earned victory, but when a request is made by the faculty which contains so little that is objectionable to the undergraduate mind as the rules laid down in the recent circular contain, we think that the students are in duty bound to conform...
...government depends on the active political influence of educated intelligence, and that parties are means, not ends. It is entirely non-partisan in its organization, and is not to be used for any other purpose than the awakening of an intelligent interest in government methods and purposes, tending to restrain the abuse of parties and to promote party morality. Among its organizers are numbered Democrats. Republicans and Independents, who differ among themselves as to which party is best fitted to conduct the government...
...easy enjoyment of tennis, but it does not seem necessary that they should be permitted to disturb the quiet of the yard. Why should not the old rule of last year, keeping them outside the gates, be enforced ? It would seem as if the endorsement of this rule would restrain this growing evil within bearable limits. The superintendent of the grounds ought to revive the rule and leave us at least one little spot free from the noisy clamors of the mucker...
Hopes are entertained that the appropriation for perfumes has run out, and that hereafter the college will restrain its employs from sowing discord between the students and their rulers...