Word: acted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...however, to have charge of this room, and to be held responsible for any injury done it, the corporation may be persuaded to allow the association to continue to use the room. If a sufficient number of men desire to be rubbed down, a man can be hired to act as "rubber down" and superintendent of the training room. The following scale of prices has been drawn up, and all men desiring to be rubbed down should have their names at the gymnasium at once, in order that a man may be hired as soon as possible...
...Should the coinage act of 1878 authorizing the 4.12 1/2 silver dollar be repealed...
Yale's refusal to join with the other New England colleges in prohibiting the playing of ball games with professional nines gives an entirely new turn to the aspect of the question. The refusal, we make no doubt, must be generally regarded as an act of discourtesy to all those colleges which have joined in the agreement, and especially a slight upon Harvard, where the movement originated. Of course the Yale faculty has a perfect right to settle its own regulations in regard to athletics in the way it deems wisest; but nevertheless it is undoubtedly an act of rudeness...
...Columbia coxswain, but it was postponed by mutual consent to another day, subject to the same minor conditions which were to govern the first-named day. (3.) One of these conditions was that the race should be rowed upon a fair ebb tide, and this condition Harvard refused to act up to. (4.) But granting for the sake of argument that this condition was waived by Columbia, and that Columbia acted in an unjustifiable manner and sought unfair advantages, it was not for Harvard to take the law into her own hands and go out of training and leave...
...Burnham Moffat, '83; sub-captain, Horace Binney, '83; secretary and treasurer, Frank W. White, '85. It was decided to institute a set of two-day runs, the particulars of which will be announced later. It was also decided to appoint a committee of two, with full powers to act upon the matter of holding a hare and hound chase on bicycles early in the fall. Another committee was appointed to look up the matter of securing rooms, both for the storage of bicycles and for the regular meetings of the club. The outlook of the club for the ensuing year...