Word: restrict
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Just before the Spring recess, at a meeting of the Athletic Committee, it was voted to restrict the use of the "H" to members of 'Varsity teams who had played in one of the big games of the season, and in the case of the Mott Haven Team it was voted to restrict the use of this letter to those who had won a point in any dual games or in the Mott Haven games. These same rules were to apply to the use of hat bands. This rule, as we said before, will be exceedingly beneficial...
...proposed system would injuriously restrict methods of work.- (a) It would virtually compel students to work at all their courses at the same time.- (1) It would require them to be ready for examination in all at the end of the same short periods.- (b) This rigid enforcement of simultaneous work is bad.- (1) It is often necessary for best results to put most of one's time on one subject for a continuous period, as in thesis writing.- (2) It is always desirable that students should feel that they can work continuously on one subject if they wish...
...French call it, the short story, as we call it, has not flourished and does not flourish in England. English writers too often make their tales seem like chapters from a three volume novel, or at least like awkward attempts at the novellete. They should, on the contrary, restrict the time of the story to a short space, and nothing like development of character should be attempted. Conspicuous examples of the best sort of short stories observe this unity of character and give the reader a glimpse, a sketch, an episode, rather than any essay toward elaborate portrayal of persons...
...resulting combination of England and Germany in the support of the gold standard, both of them selling silver and buying gold, compelled even France to restrict silver coinage and finally to cease entirely from coining that metal...
...this controversy, but that they are satisfied that every important step has been taken only after a full consideration of the opinions of Harvard men, both graduate and undergraduate; that in no case has the authority vested in the Athletic Committee by the Corporation, been used to hamper of restrict in anyway the liberty of any Harvard man to think or act as he pleased in matters of a personal nature...