Word: accordance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entirely in accord with the effort made by the students of this University so to reform college sports that they shall hereafter be played under rules which will limit participation in them to bona fide members of the University, who have never had any pecuniary profit from their sport; and we heartily approve the new rules (subjoined), which have lately been unanimously adopted by the Harvard Football and Baseball Associations, and have been sent to us with the request that they receive our sanction. They provide that no one shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public athletic...
...taken. Harvard has decided to withdraw unconditionally from the football league, and this is as it should be. By so doing she has put herself on record as the champion of purity in intercollegiate athletics. Whatever may be the result of her action, she has assumed of her own accord an independent position which cannot successfully be challenged...
...will also watch the candidates carefully. Everyone who considers himself at all likely to be able to play football, whether he has played before or not, is expected to join this squad. The work will not be too vigorous-no more than everyone would do of his own accord. The squad will meet dressed and ready for exercise at 4.15 every afternoon. The men will go through dumb-bell and parallel-bar exercise, and will work in a general way with the ladders and chest-weights. The exercises will end with work with the large shot. The squad will...
...Surbridge, '89, closed for the negative. Even on an estate it will not do to have laborers and tenants hostile to the owner. The whole system must be in accord. Men of bad moral character should never be retained, even if efficient. The so-called convict appointees of Cleveland should be replaced by Republicans, even if they can do their work. The civil service rules should be extended so as to cover all the offices. Under this system no questions are asked about political beliefs. If the present incumbents can pass the examinations, and are men of honor, integrity...
...Such a committee, appointed with definitely limited powers, could do much by their advice and assistance to aid the captain in his duties. With their help the captain could decide on the policy of the crew and the details of the stroke. With the captain and crew in thorough accord with its advisors, the task of developing the eight would be far easier, and when to this is added the stimulus which the increased interest of the college at large would impart to the crew, could they feel that it was in their hands and not in the hands...