Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contrary, as at present conducted, they train the young men to look upon victory as the rewards of treachery and deceit. That this is the case, anyone who has seen the game of baseball as it is played by the so-called best college nines will at once admit. For the pitcher, instead of delivering the ball to the batter in an honest, straightforward way, that the latter may exert his strength to the best advantage in knocking it, now uses every effort to deceive him by curving-I think that is the word-the ball. And this is looked...
...perhaps from a practical standpoint this custom is really objectionable. Formerly, when the entire college furniture was cheap and rough, this carving was a very different matter than it has become now when our buildings are fitted up in a comparatively handsome manner. Even the most partial would freely admit that the great majority of the names which are thus carved are not famous and probably never will be, while in waiting for the one famous man to arise from the ninety and nine common-place, a room is greatly disfigured by this indiscriminate cutting. It is hardly presumable that...
...individually as boys, and collectively as boat clubs-have frequently, persistently, and with malice aforethought, committed the crime colloquially called "putting on airs" over the oarsmen of what they are pleased to call "inferior," and "country" colleges," and then he naively remarks in the happiest vein, "we also cheerfully admit that this conduct is discourteous and unjustifiable." His remedy for our practice of "putting on airs." over "country oarsmen," is that, "since eminent lawyers agree that this offence is not a felony, nor even a misdemeanor, sensible people punish such actions by those most potent penalties, indifference and disregard-what...
...local legend is certainly to that effect. The seriousminded alumnus of the University of Virginia assumes a fine disdain for the lotus-eating students of Harvard, Yale and Columbia. If one may take the examinations propounded here as a criterion, every Northern collegian will doubtless be willing to admit that it cannot "seem always afternoon" to the University of Virginia student. These examinations, incredibly enough, occupy from six to fifteen hours and are said to average about ten. It is true that the utmost freedom is allowed, the young men can come and go as they please, they are subject...
...accepted. It was further decided that the championship race should be a fouroared oared shell race, one mile and a half straightaway. A single shell race was determined upon, and the committee was empowered to decide whether there should be any other races. The committee was authorized to admit any college crew to the race on thirty days' notice before the event, such an entry being regarded as equivalent to that college joining the association. The convention then adjourned...