Word: bound
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Inasmuch as a victory for our freshmen is not among the improbabilities, we wish gently to hint that the celebration ensuing would be more satisfactory for all concerned if it were to be kept within the bounds prescribed by the circular issued by the faculty. We all know that it is no easy task to restrain the enthusiasm consequent upon a hard earned victory, but when a request is made by the faculty which contains so little that is objectionable to the undergraduate mind as the rules laid down in the recent circular contain, we think that the students...
This is the scientific age; everything is now governed by rule, everything is bound by precision. And in the strides that the world has made during the past century, it is strange to see how our athletics have evolved from a sort of chaos into sharply defined, well regulated sciences, requiring the action of mind as well as of body to perfect them...
...have a dear infidel; but don't think her unfaithful, I could not love her if she was. There is a baseness in all deceit which my sould is virtuous enough to abhor, and therefore I look with horror on adultery. But my amiable mistress is no longer bound to him who was her husband; he has used her shockingly ill. Is she not then free? She is, it is clear, and no argument can disguise it. She is now mine, and were she to be unfaithful to me, she ought to be pierced with a Corsican poniard." Boswell...
...Yale. The Spaulding Hall was adopted, and the new league rules with these exceptions. That the old rules for the pitcher, seven balls, and distance of batter from the plate are retained; also, a man will not be given his base it hit by a pitcher; a foul bound is not out, as last year...
...each instance, the only information elicited was to the effect that they had, as yet, nothing to say about the newly adopted regulations. Just why this mysterious state of affairs should exist, it is difficult to understand, inasmuch as the decision of the faculty meeting is final, and therefore bound to become public in a short time...