Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Oakley course is the only one near enough to Cambridge for the team's use, and for a number of years the directors have been kind enough to allow a certain number of Harvard players to use the links all spring, upon the payment of a certain fee. The payment of this fee does not carry with it the privilege of playing there in the fall, however, and at present the only men having the right to use the links are--(1) members; (2) guests, introduced by and playing with a member, who have paid the greens...
Experience has shown that nations as well as individuals will break an unenforcable contract. But no nation, however well prepared, would risk engaging all the other combined powers at once. The delay occasioned by the judgement of the tribunal would allow hasty passions to cool and sober second thought would be satisfied with an adjustment which could not be made in the first anger. The prepared country would moreover, lose all the advantage of its preparedness through the delay...
...time rows when Coach Nickalls deems them necessary, and otherwise pulls varying from five to ten or fifteen miles in length. The times of the Blue oarsmen have compared very closely with those of the Harvard eight. In the only time trials which run close enough together to allow a very fair comparison Harvard's, was the fastest by a matter of three seconds, which means three-quarters of a length. The times were 20minutes, 2 seconds, and 21 minutes, 5 seconds. Yale was paced by their second crew during the last mile while their opponents rowed the whole trial...
...punches or distilled liquors shall be allowed in any College room on Class Day or Commencement Day. Every tenant of the College shall be held responsible for the observance of this rule in his own room, and he shall not allow the use of his room on those days by any class secretary or other person or persons without the previous written consent of the Bursar, who shall not give his consent in any case until such class secretary or other person or persons shall have filed with him a written agreement that this rule shall be complied with...
...University track squad of 24 men will arrive at Philadelphia this morning at 8.40 o'clock. They will go at once to the Hotel Aldine, which will be the head-quarters of the team during the meet. Coaches Donovan and Powers will allow only the lightest sort of workout today, taking no chance on an eleventh-hour injury...