Word: government
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...commanding college men so that they may be carried away, lose their head and use their power to advance friends. We do not think that the selecting men for the teams is part of a captain's duty, but that he is elected to train the men and govern them when on the field. The hard feeling and discontent caused by this misuse of power might be alleviated, if not overcome, by giving to a committee the responsibility of choosing the men. A half-dozen or a dozen men selected from all the classes, would then fairly and impartially choose...
...Princetonian. It voices the opinions which a great many persons now hold in regard to the importance of the position of referee in a Rugby foot-ball game : "To those who have watched the development of the game in recent years, the inefficiency of the most stringent regulations governing the conduct of the players would have occasioned no surprise. The Harvard game, in New York, was only a practical illustration of the fact that rules will not make a player a gentleman, if he naturally inclines toward ruffianism. The fact of it is, there should be no necessity for rules...
...great personal familiarity leads him to continually suggest a variety of incidents and illustrations which tend to drift away from the main subject. The House of Commous in England is the center of political life, in it, is vested by far the larger share of the power of the government, and as it is republican in its character and representative of the people, it is of course the most popular branch of the government. Naturally an election to a seat in this body is considered a high honor and as such is sought after by the most intelligent and influential...
...Collegiate Association for the season of 1883. Some of these rules seem to the committee to be highly objectionable. Rules 19, 28 and 38, a copy of which I append, appear to allow of no other inference than that the manly spirit of fair play is not expected to govern the conduct of all players, but that on the contrary the spirit of sharpers and of roughs has to be guarded against. The committee believe that the games hotly played under these rules have already begun to degenerate from a manly, if rough, sport into brutal and dangerous contest. They...
...following rules will govern the hare and hounds runs of the club...