Word: fulfils
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cannot be otherwise than gratifying to read the following, from the Yale News, concerning the failure of their freshman eleven to fulfil the engagement to play our own team last Saturday. "Our freshman foot ball team have not covered themselves with glory in their negotiations with Harvard this fall. The facts of the case are these. It seems that at a class meeting it was decided to play Harvard last Saturday. This decision was, however, distasteful to their men on the eleven, who on this account declared that they would not play. And upon this the captain of the team...
There is then obviously a field open for the establishment of a co-operative bureau, of intercollegiate communication. The private communications of professors and the conferences of learned societies at present, it is true, partially fulfil this purpose; but very inadequately. Perhaps it is within the province of the new Correspondence University to act as such a medium of communication...
...played in Cambridge and two at New Haven, and only if necessary to play off a tie be played. Bitter experience has proved the extravagance of the New York trips. Last June-July, after the close of the college year, our nine made a trip to New York to fulfil their arrangements, and notwithstanding the most rigid economy prescribed by Mr. Winslow excellent, and followed out by the members of the nine, over $400 was lost by the association, owing principally to bed weather. According to the constitution of the Base-Ball Association the vice-president is scorer ex-officio...
...true that there has been recently no appalling calamity or loss of life from fire to arouse the popular feeling in regard to the danger of fire in the college buildings, but it is not necessary for the corporation to wait for some such stimulus to compel them to fulfil their promise. We were told that the staples would be ready soon after the recess, and it would seem as though sufficient time had elapsed for the production of these articles which cannot take either much time or money for their manufacture...
...generally poor but bright graduates. The sizars, Bible clerks and scholars are bright undergraduates. Nearly all the resident fellows are tutors, bursars or deans. The tutors answer to our professors and instructors, preparing men for the two great examinations both by lectures and recitations, and having also to fulfil our proctor's duties...