Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...league, then let Princeton, Harvard and Columbia form a league by themselves. Such a league would be a very strong one, and would ultimately result in materially raising the standard of base-ball at each of these three colleges. I am well aware that the proposal to allow Columbia to enter will meet with much opposition, but is this fair? Columbia defeated Yale, Princeton and Harvard last year, and, though it by no means follows that she will be able to do so this year, yet she has shown herself worthy of a place in the new league...
...seen. Another mass meeting will certainly be held to decide what shall be done; and Princeton also must be heard from before we can do anything. Now, indeed, O Yalensians, have we cause for plotting. Shall we return to the fold or form a league with Columbia and allow Yale to win the championship of nothing? Wait...
Prof. Chaplin has kindly offered to allow the students in History 13 to use one of the rooms in the Lawrence Scientific School in preparing their maps and charts, as the room devoted to this purpose in Massachusetts is not large enough to accommodate the whole section...
...insist on your rights and see to it that a portion of that room now called the "cage" be yielded to your more important demands, and be used henceforth as storage room, now very necessary, for crippled nine-pins and rheumatic balls. See to it that you do not allow the gymnasium officials to deprive you of any part of your wonted play-ground, especially for the advantage of base-ball, a game for which a small closet gives amply sufficient practice room. If by any chance some of your unused alleys should be put to any other...
...speed, none of the exercises are long continued. They are expected to give the men suppleness; and without strict training to prepare them to get into racing condition as soon as the track opens in the spring. The sharp corners of the running track in the gymnasium do not allow very fast work, but every day the spinters cover three or four laps at a good rate of speed. The distance men run further and slower; quite fast enough, however, for some of the newer candidates. Lately the track on Holmes field has been covered with a smooth coating...