Word: draw
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...professional" spirit. The question is not one which can be settled by arbitrary rules; for no matter how strong the regulations may be made, cases will continually arise in which exceptions will have to be made to their strict enforcement. The fact is that it is impossible to draw the line unerringly between professionals and amateurs, and if anybody should attempt to draw such a line he would find himself confronted with a multitude of unanswerable technical questions. In trying to enforce the rule against professionals, therefore, the faculty will be compelled either to do injustice to many...
...crews have been ordered to the Brookline bridge at 3.45 sharp, when the draw of the railroad bridge will be opened. The crews will be started from boats anchored and joined by a rope stretching across the river. After the boats have been properly aligned, a cautionary signal will be given by a long blast from the tug whistle; after an interval of one minute three short whistles will follow, signifying "Are you ready?" a pistol shot from the tug will be the signal to start, given immediately after the three whistles. Two whistles from the tug will recall...
...fatuity of any regulations which tend to suppress them to permit such regulations to be long in operation." It is not a fact that the Harvard or Princeton faculties have endeavored to suppress athletics at their respective colleges. What they did try to do was to endeavor to draw a line between gentlemen who play base-ball for sport and professionals who make the game a means of earning their livelihood. Their object was to prevent as far as possible the entrance of any of the many objectionable features of professionalism into college sports. Their purpose was a laudable...
...back and get into trim again before the college games begin; and there is consequently no need for the college to give up hopes of putting a good representative nine into the field for those contests. We are especially lucky in having a good second nine from which to draw substitutes for any places which may be made vacant. Just what could be done in the present condition of affairs, if we did not have this supply to fall back on, it is difficult...
...Pierian spring and then throwing his head back, like a bird, to let the learning get down - because the onlooker can make little of the observation. But when the same student leaves his tomes and is placed alongside some roasted joints and college-baked bread, the onlooker can draw his conclusions, and even long - as we did that morning - to join in the grateful pursuit. The dining hall in question will admit of six hundred students all thirsting for knowledge, eating roast beef at the same time. There is a gallery at one end of the hall for carious strangers...