Word: cuts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sixty men working night and day in the Athletic Office. The approximate seating capacity of the Stadium is 35,000, and the total number of applications received was 47,183. Of these, Yale received 16,000 seats. The Harvard applications therefore, amounting to 31,183, had to be cut down to 19,000, that is, approximately only two-thirds of the Harvard applications were filled. As it is now, 12, 183 Harvard applications remain unfilled. There were 1,358 applicants for one seat, 23,999 applicants for two seats, and the remaining were borrowed applications which were not touched...
...worst thing about the Student Council is that the undergraduates who elected it have shown no respect for their own handiwork. The requests that men shall not cut on the days of games have been ignored by 1215 men in the last three Saturdays...
...cuts for the West Point game show how men give way to their quaint ideas about the right to cut, and the naive reasoning by which lazy men justify Saturday absences, argues well for a reconsideration of the present football schedule...
...Cornell game 74 men cut their 12 o'clock lectures, and the total number of cuts between 9 and 1 o'clock...
...Cambridge shore and went inside two rafts anchored about one hundred feet off shore, while the third crew passed outside both rafts and was passed by the second crew. Just after leaving the rafts the University crew raised the stroke to 33 for a time and further cut down the lead of the second crew to only two lengths of open water, this stretch being the first time the crew showed good form and got into the water quickly. It was just after this that the crew lost three lengths or more by running into the launch. About 300 yards...