Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first half describes the appearance in the court of King Arthur, at Yuletide, of a stalwart knight all clad in green, who challenges the assembled knights to a strange contest. The green knight offers to allow any man present to deal him a blow with his axe on condition that he (the green knight) may deal a return blow a twelvemonth hence at the Green Chapel. Sir Gawain is the only knight valiant enough to accept the challenge. Accordingly, with a ponderous blow he chops off the green knight's head. But the latter picks his head up again...
Captain Thorne of the Yale football eleven said yesterday that at the request of the B. A. A. eleven, Yale had agreed to allow that club to play under the Harvard rules next Saturday. This will be the first game of the season at New Haven under the old mass play rules and the first for Yale to play against a heavy team under these rules. The Boston team is the strongest eleven Yale has faced this year...
...grass in front of Witherspoon Hall. Three men from each class, a heavy weight, middle weight and light weight, contested in pairs for the possession of a stout stick called by courtesy a cane. Of later years the thing degenerated into a free fight and the faculty refused to allow it any longer at night, so it was made a part of the fall handicap games. Last spring Scribner's published a book by Jesse L. Williams '92, entitled "Princeton Stories" and in it was described in an interesting way the old cane spree. This description was without doubt...
Question: "Resolved, That the Interstate Commerce Act should be so amended as to allow pooling...
...sport. Under these circumstances we feel that it would not be for the best interests of football, or the universities, to run even a chance of a repetion of Yale's experience since the Harvard game. Unless then such contradictions come from you would it not be wiser to allow the feeling thus engendered to cool with time rather than to enter upon a contest with these recollections fresh in our minds? Should you still be unwilling to do us justice in this way we have concluded to arrange no game with you. Let me assure you, however, that...