Word: holding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Rules Committee next points out that holding must be absolutely eliminated. Its effects are very great--"the slowest man in the world could make a 40-yard run in every play if the rest of his team would hold their opponents long enough." And it is a very easy thing to conceal. Coaching from the side lines, beating the ball by unfair use of a starting signal, talking to opponents (which is prohibited by rules only if abusive or insulting), and arguing with officials, are in the same class; they all have an important result on the outcome...
...Committee on the Naval Training Cruise for Civilians has arranged with Captain R. H. Jackson, U. S. N., Commanding U. S. S. Virginia, to hold a series of meetings for the preliminary instruction of all those who intend to make the cruise this summer. These meetings will be under the supervision of experienced naval officers, and all men are urged to attend the classes in order to obtain such instruction as will be useful to them on the cruise in August...
...short space of 15 years, 344 men have graduated with the degree of Master of Forestry, and 120 additional men have enrolled who did not complete sufficient work for a degree. At present 153 of these graduates are in the United States Forest Service, holding commanding positions. They have occupied a prominent place in shaping the forestry policy of this country and in putting that policy into execution. Out of twenty States that have organized departments of forestry under technically trained men, 12 are directed by men who received their training at Yale, while nine additional men hold less important...
...first one hundred and forty-four years of its existence the College did grant degrees and the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 sanctified this power by providing 'that the President and Follows in their corporate capacity, and their successors in that capacity, their officers and servants, shall have, hold, use, exercise and enjoy, all the powers, authorities, rights, liberties, privileges, immunities and franchises which they now have, hold, use, exercise and enjoy.' That is the basis of our degree-granting power--a privilege exercised in colonial days without formal authority but subsequently embalmed in the organic law of the Commonwealth...
...weather conditions is very poor. There seems to be a bad check in this Yale shell, which Coach Nichalls is doing his best to remedy. McLane, the experienced Yale coxswain, today lost his plac to Lasher, and the only assignable reason is that McLane has become too corpulent to hold down his job at the extreme stern...