Word: forfeit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first game of the inter-class series is scheduled to take place to-day, on Jarvis, between '86 and '89, with Mr. Willard as referee. It is rumored that '89 will forfeit the game...
Rule 21, add, "Either side refusing to play within five minutes after ordered to by the referee, shall forfeit the game." This rule was made necessary on account of the delay at the Princeton-Yale game in New York...
...does shall have full force without dependence upon the consent of the overseers, * * * provided always that the acts of the corporation shall be alterable by the overseers, according to their discretion. No limit of time is set within which the overseers must exercise their right of revision, or else forfeit it. No one concluding a contract with the corporation would dream of making the overseers a party to the contract. Their powers have been somewhat extended in practice, but their main function at present is to give their consent a matter of form-to the nominations of instructors...
Rule 22.- Add, Either side refusing to play within five minutes after ordered to play by referee, shall forfeit the game...
...moral sentiment of the college would be a stronger safeguard against the contemptible measures of a few unprincipled fellows-they do not deserve the name of men or students-than the most careful surveillance of an army of proctors. If a man is trusted he is ashamed to forfeit the confidence reposed in him; but if he is suspected and watched, it is but natural for him to seek to outwit those who distrust him. Let, therefore, the plan which has been adopted in certain courses be extended, as far as practicable, to all, and we feel sure that when...