Word: restrictions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Should the United States restrict the immigration of the Chinese...
...about boats or in manual labor; or be a mechanic, artisan, or laborer." This tells the whole story. The English fear crews like the Watkins Glen, the Nautilus, the Beaverwycks, etc., etc., and have so worded their definition as to exclude these and similar crews from Henley, and restrict the regatta to 'gentlemen' entries, and proves what we said in our last, in regard to the definition, to be true...
...Cambridge Press would perhaps do well to restrict its Harvard correspondent to sign-boards and other similar subjects that give a fair field for the exercise of his somewhat lively imagination; for his attempts to deal with facts are remarkable for brilliancy rather than accuracy, that is, if we can judge from the way in which he speaks of the "electric" system, and from the following Junior forensic subject, as given in the Press, - "Is the popular estimate of Micawber as the ideal historian erroneous...
...present system of entertainments. The students say it is not. A theory of what might be has been substituted for the observation of what really is. This is the opinion of the more moderate, who would not go so far as to deny the right of the Faculty to restrict the students' independence in such matters. For ourselves, we cannot see how the same reasons which would lead the Faculty to oppose an extended tour of the Glee Club should also lead them to prohibit all performances for money in Cambridge and Boston, where nine tenths of the audience...