Word: code
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...athletics is something more than a vague tendency; it is, indeed, a fact which is becoming ever more clearly-established. One cannot escape obvious conclusions, of which the chief, I think, is that Harvard, Yale, and Princeton--traditional leaders in intercollegiate sport--intend to work out among themselves a code of athletics which will satisfy the scrupulous investigation of any scrupulously inclined person who feels impelled at any future time to undertake the task. --New York Evening Post...
...Soldiers' and Sailors' Club of Paris has prepared and issued a "Code Simplifie du Baseball", which renders the tongue-twisting American phrases into French. The Code "Simplifie" was first put into use recently in the Bois de Boulogne between the American Signal Disbursing team and the Triple A's. The "Code" was distributed to the French-speaking spectators. Boston Traveler...
...soon as a sufficient quantity of the Russian rifles arrive, the regular S. A. T. C. will use them exclusively, thereby allowing the Junior Company to use the "Krags." This week's schedule includes extended order drill for the company as a unit, and next week the semaphore code will be taken...
...speak usually of our honor system. First it was a system merely. It has now become, however, a spirit pervading the place. In the present troublous times our nation is at war in order that men may live their lives according to the code of honor. In the new order of things after the war, it is the sense of honor which must prevail between man and man, nation and nation, the world over...
...requirements for admission are not exacting, the only test being that one must be able to send at least 10 words a minute in the International Morse Code. Most of the men in training are from the regular Navy with approximately 600 of the naval reserve. Some are sent from ships, while others are ordered here from their places of enlistment. Many are enrolled from as far away as the Pacific Coast and the gulf states...