Word: acted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Tompkins, captain of the Yale eleven will act as referee in today's Harvard-Princeton game...
...them two things: that they must not on any account get "rattled" and that they must not have too much self-confidence. These two lessons, taken well to heart and backed by earnest faithful practice, will do much toward winning their game with Yale, and we trust they will act upon the suggestion. There is yet time before them to get into excellent trim; they have abundant good material, and are well backed by the class, so all they have got to do is to make the most out of their present opportunities, and this we hope they will endeavor...
...field open for the establishment of a co-operative bureau, of intercollegiate communication. The private communications of professors and the conferences of learned societies at present, it is true, partially fulfil this purpose; but very inadequately. Perhaps it is within the province of the new Correspondence University to act as such a medium of communication...
...Clipper, in speaking of Queckberner's throw of 26 feet 5 1-2 inches with the 56 1b. hammer, which breaks the record, says: "The Executive committee of the National Association will act wisely if at their next meeting they fix a standard of weight for the ball itself, even if they do not adopt a length-limit for the handle, which latter, however, they ought to do, in order that corrects comparisons may be instituted between the performances of different athletes. It would also be advisable for the committee to adopt a rule prohibiting the use of privately-owned...
...seldom that any damage whatever is done to a room, but if there should be, we feel sure that the gentlemen who use the rooms will see that everything is made right with the owner. This is one of the understood conditions in the borrowing. It is merely an act of courtesy, and we earnestly hope that no member of '84 may be put to any inconveniences through some one's want of consideration...