Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Allow me therefore to suggest a plan that will obviate at least a part of the difficulties. Let the management take off all the turf where the courts are and have the ground cleared of stones and rolled; this will give us earth courts, which are far better than any but the best turf courts, and more
...been found that several of the men entered for the freshman sports have not yet been examined by Dr. Sargent as they are required to be by a rule of the college. In order to allow time for this, the meeting has been postponed until Thursday...
...parliamentary and gentlemanly rules of etiquette. It is a disgrace to the college that one for its classes should exhibit such a mockery of a class meeting. While it is expected that the first meeting of the freshmen will be devoid of all sobriety, succeeding assemblies are supposed to allow an opportunity of exhibiting the herent respectabilities of the members. But the disgraceful scene enacted at the last meeting of the class of '88 deserves the severest censure of the college at large. Such a season of uproar as was witnessed in Boylston Hall last evening, can only be accounted...
...possible those of a match. Men get into the habit of passing just a little ahead ; of claiming downs by merely resting their hands on the ball, when in a match it would be kicked from under by the nearest opponent so quickly that the referee would never allow it ; of "bunting" so palpably as to make an evident foul ; of not kicking off from the twenty-five yard line quickly when they get a chance, etc., etc. It takes much of the snap and maneuver out of their play. Let us have a good referee then, every...
...change in the uniform of the base ball nine is contemplated by the management. They propose to ask permission of the cricket club to allow them to adopt a cap similar in design, crimson and black stripes, to that worn by the cricketers ; but having the stripes a little narrower, and the cloth of flannel. In addition they will have crimson and black jackets of the same material, instead of the present sombre gray ones, which they have worn in past years, when waiting their turn at the bat, and at other times when engaged in the most active exercises...