Word: certain
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...technical aspects of this decision the public is not so much concerned as it is with the results which will follow, if the committee's definitions are accepted by the federation and become binding. Vagueness of standard has made for laxity of conduct often. The surer athletes are that certain formally declared rules of classification cover cases of conduct that. Whenever noted, at once, automatically as it were, put the men out of the amatuer and into the professional class, and the surer they are that these rules will be enforced once they are officially announced, the move likelihood there...
These various losses and alarms induced the Corporation, after 1872, to take certain precautions against the spread of fire in their old buildings; and after 1880 to use, or ask for,--"slow-burning" or "fire-proof" construction in their new buildings...
...five men to place will probably be Patterson and Lippincott, of Pennsylvania, Bond and Seward, of Michigan, and Reller, of Cornell. Since Bond has done 9 4-5 seconds this spring and since all are capable of 10 seconds flat, the winner is extremely doubtful. One thing is certain, if weather conditions are favorable, the victor will have to do 9 4-5 seconds or better...
...thing is certain, however, that with fair weather, the competition Friday and Saturday should be the most spectacular in years, and should lead to the making of several new records, for almost every college is represented by a few individual stars. But with the new scoring system, the first-place man is worth only one point more than the man who finishes second, so that it is not the team with a few individual stars that should win, but the team uniformly strong in every event. Herein lies Yale's chances for victory. Besides stars like Brown, Poucher, Potter...
...been showing lately. Johnstone, Camp and Sturgis should all score for Harvard, Johnstone in both the high and broad jumps, and Camp and Sturgis in the pole vault and hammer throw respectively. From this brief forecast it becomes at once evident that the winner of no event is certain at this point, that several records should be broken, and that to choose the ultimate victor is indeed a difficult task...