Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...inter-university cable chess match between Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia on one side, and Oxford and Cambridge Universities on the other, will be played today. The American team will begin play at New York this morning at 7.45 o'clock, to allow for the difference in time between this country and England. Each man will play one game, at the rate of 25 moves an hour, with a man representing the English team. The country winning the majority of games will win the challenge cup, which was won by Oxford two years...
...annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Cross Country Association, held in the Fith Avenue Hotel, it was voted to allow nine men to start in the race, the first six finishing to count, not the first four as formerly. It was also voted to hold the intercollegiate meet next year at Princeton. Havron, of Princeeon, was appointed manager of the next meet, with the track team managers of Columbia and Pennsylvania as assistant managers...
...affects the athlete's health, for he must have nourishing food, served at regular times and adapted to the hours of practice. To get these conditions the table must differ from the ordinary standard even though the changes are slight. Moreover, it is only fair to the trainer to allow him to watch the men at meals, for in no other way can he surely discover that a man is out of condition. Men have frequently been sent on time trials and injured, simply because the trainer or coach had not had a good opportunity to discover his physical unfitness...
...probability of defeat, which is more demoralizing to enthusiastic sport than any ethical disadvantage of a professional coach. Let each college abandon professional coaches and all will meet on perfectly fair grounds. Until then I sincerely hope Harvard will stick to the policy she has now adopted--and not allow her teams to meet others on unfair grounds, to be defeated year after year merely for the sake of theory. A. L. CASTLE...
During the mid-year and final examinations, it has been the custom at the College Library to allow reserved books to be borrowed from the Reading Room for use overnight, on condition that they be returned by 9 o'clock the next morning. I want to ask those who borrow to take pains to return books promptly, so that other workers may not be deprived of their...