Word: forfeit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Captains shall be elected and shall be held responsible for the prompt appearance of their teams. A delay of ten minutes in starting will forfeit a game...
...team playing an ineligible man shall forfeit the contest in which the man was played...
...Freshman class dinner, which was held last evening at the American House, was attended by about 330 men and went off very successfully. As there was practically no breakage, it was not necessary to forfeit the bond of $500 which had been collected...
...that exception has not been defeated. The team is unusually strong this year, and has already defeated the University team by the score of 18 to 6, and this week defeated Yale. The University team, besides being defeated by Columbia and Yale, has lost a game to Princeton and forfeited one to Pennsylvania, but on the other hand has beaten Cornell twice, Princeton, and Pennsylvania by forfeit...
...strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed of the strong men who take the trouble to do the work of government; and if you are too timid or too fastidious or too careless to do your part in this work, then you forfeit your right to be considered one of the governing and you become one of the governed instead--one of the driven cattle of the political arena. I want you to feel that it is not merely your right to take part in politics, not merely your duty to the state...