Word: acted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bare assumption of the committee is needed to prove that suitable and sufficient changes cannot be made. Any action by the Committee or by the Faculty which shall prohibit intercollegiate foot ball, without allowing us the chance to remove the objectionable features of the game, will be an inexcusable act of injustice towards the students...
...team at the last moment-Thursday night-telegraphed to Harvard that there would be no game. Now in every one of these steps the Freshmen were wholly in the wrong, and by no means up to the proper standard of fair dealing. It was an utterly inexcusable act on the part of the three men in question to refuse to play, because the time did not suit them; especially when by so doing they weakened the team very seriously. It was an error of judgment on the part of the captain to refuse to play with a team on which...
Regular Meeting tonight at 7.30 in Holden. Reading from Julius Cxsar, Act I, scenes...
...increased efficiency of its crew, every class would prefer to employ a coach in order to relieve the captain or some other oarsman of the trouble of coaching. In regard to the university crew, one of its past members in the Law School would no doubt consent to act as coach for nothing. Indeed, he might think it his duty to do so. It would, however, be an imposition upon him by the athletic committee. He would be giving an amount of his time for nothing, which to another man was worth $750 a year...
...came to nothing. Then the idea of faculty interference in athletics was so novel and disagreeable, that the students simply bucked against it recklessly. Now the idea of interference, although no less disagreeable, perhaps, has lost all of its novelty, and we realize that, as the power to act undoubtedly lies with the faculty, we must show cause why they should not take any particular action, and try to bring them to our way of thinking. So, while the right of interference cannot be denied, we think that the committee ought to allow the students at least a fair chance...