Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unmanageable, and the ringleader of every escapade indulged in by the students; "yet," says his biographer, "whatever Poe may have been in after years, he was when I knew him at the University of Virginia as honest a friend as the sometimes waywardness of his otherwise noble nature would allow. There was not the least touch of insincerity, and never the slightest indication of that maliciously fickle disposition which in after times was so often brought up against...
...hopelessly and feebly from the beginning. We must confess that looking from an extreme outside point of view the committee's views have great plausibility and some real strength. but we can only say that to the best of our knowledge the nine trained faithfully, except that they were allowed to smoke; that the captain, laboring as he did under great personal disadvantages and though he did not have the sympathy of certain "know-alls" who croaked and condemned the nine at every step because the captain was a sophomore, made every effort to bring a good team into...
...pitching which have been going the rounds of the press, the following from the Clipper on League pitching rules may be of interest : "The question which will be 'before the house' at the annual conventions of the League and the American Association will be whether it is best to allow an unrestrained freedom of movement in the pitchers delivery-admitting of either a pitched, a tossed, a jerked or an overthrown ball to the bat-or to still further limit the delivery so as to prevent the direct overthrow. There is one evil in connection with the rule...
...refusal of the faculty to allow Harvard to participate in foot-ball matches was the current topic of discussion yesterday...
...collegiate match games of foot-ball are now played and to the rules of the American Inter-Collegiate Association for the season of 1883. Some of these rules seem to the committee to be highly objectionable. Rules 19, 28 and 38, a copy of which I append, appear to allow of no other inference than that the manly spirit of fair play is not expected to govern the conduct of all players, but that on the contrary the spirit of sharpers and of roughs has to be guarded against. The committee believe that the games hotly played under these rules...