Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they cannot spare or undergo the reproach and stigma of meanness. One word in conclusion. Many - if not most - of the best and noblest men of old England, during the past sixty or seventy years, were good at the oar, at foot-ball, at cricket; but they did not allow those games to encroach on their more serious duties. At Rugby, at Winchester, and other public schools, and afterwards at Oxford and Cambridge, they won high rank as scholars. This they could not possibly have done had they given - or been allowed to give - one-tenth part of the time...
...general wish of the university at large, and against the inclination of some of the members of the crew, has considered it advisable to again challenge Columbia, is due to our strong wish to give our opponents all the chances which we can consistently with our own interests allow. Knowing that the cause of last July's trouble cannot be definitely proved, and wishing to keep up friendly relations between Columbia and Harvard, we are willing to put ourselves to additional trouble and expense, but we are NOT willing to do anything to impair our chances with Yale. Furthermore, since...
...which it turns upon the visitors from Yale and dubbs them "Connecticut roughs." Bad as has been the conduct of Yale in this matter, and deserving of censure as the college may be for upholding and even praising the conduct of its team, we cannot without a protest allow the impression to prevail at Yale that the students of Harvard are reduced to the extremity of indulging in such unseemly vilification as a means of upholding their cause and of defending their rights...
...voice to protest against an abuse which, as I believe, many have long wished to denounce. The plain language he uses about the mismanagement of our colleges is refreshing, and I hope it may have a wholesome effect. It is, as he says, an abomination and an outrage to allow young men to travel all over the country to play and witness matches, incurring expenses which in many cases their friends cannot afford, wasting time to the neglect of their real work, and exposed to various demoralizing influences. It is the clear duty of college governments to prohibit it absolutely...
John S. Prince, the champion professional bicycle rider of Boston, and Lewis T. Frye of Marlboro have signed articles of agreement to ride a ten-mile bicycle race for a silver cup valued at $100, Prince to allow Frye 20 seconds start, the race to take place at the Institute fair building Nov. 30, at 9 P. M., and to be run under the Wolverhampton rules of racing...