Word: suppress
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...White Bear of Norway," Mr. H.G. Leach gives a somewhat journalese account of Bjornson and his struggle to form a national language in Norway. One can only hope that Mr. Leach is not a good reporter; according to him Bjornson admits that the rural speech he is trying to suppress is more beautiful than that of the cities, which he is trying to force on all, but maintains that the future of Norway, "like the future of all other nations, is to be industrial, and the language of industry is the language of the cities, of culture, and progress...
...colleges is a personal product, the work of those alumni whose names are forever linked with American history. The influence of many of these graduates cannot be estimated in terms of money; it is something above all such considerations. These are the reasons which bring about that we cannot suppress the influence of an American college...
...present undergraduate members of the Society agree to cease entirely from all of their former activities; to make certain restitution of University property; to use their best efforts, collectively and individually, to suppress the Society forever; to sign, individually, the agreement containing these terms, which are to be made public. On the other hand, the present undergraduate members are not to be held responsible for any future conduct of past members in regard to the re-establishment of the Society; the knowledge gained by the College office of the membership of the Society is not to be used against...
...editorial on organized cheering, quoted from the Yale News in yesterday's CRIMSON, closes with a significant sentence. Cheering, it says, "has now reached a stage where, in the interest of clean sport, definite steps, should be taken to suppress it." If, as the editorial elsewhere states, the continuous uproar of the present day game" is regarded by both Harvard and Yale as "an unpleasant feature of the modern college game,"--and the recent communications printed in the CRIMSON would seem to bear out his statement so far as Harvard is concerned,--then these steps may well be taken...
France, M. Leroy-Beaulieu said, has been in history, and is still, the first among Catholic nations, but she was the first country to proclaim religious liberty, in the sixteenth century. Louis XIV, by revoking the Edict of Nantes, could not suppress the Protestants, and they recovered their liberty before the Revolution, under Louis...