Word: forswearing
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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...routine of undergraduate life; to make them incidents, not epochs, in college history; to limit their preliminary training within reasonable bounds as to expenditure, either of time or money; to totally abandon the employment of professional trainers or assistants; to avoid undue notoriety and its attendant unhealthy excitement; to forswear all gate-money speculation-in short, to conduct these contests strictly in accordance with the true spirit of genuine amateur sport...