Word: incurable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...weight spree was won by a sophomore. In the heavy weight spree, we see evidence of the spirit in which Princeton is conducting foot-ball mattes this year. The candidates selected were foot-ball men, but, as the managers of the spree were unwilling that foot-ball men should incur the danger of a heavy fall, the candidates were barred out, and without protest acquiesced to the decision of the managers. The freshmen had no man to put up against the other candidate of the sophomores, and so lost the heavy weight...
...best investment or accumulation which the university can make from year to year for the benefit of future generations. As fast as new resources are placed in their hands, whether from increase in the amount of tuition fees, or from the income of new endowments, the corporation incur new permanent charges...
Students at Williams who wish to play foot-ball must obtain written permission from their parents, the faculty being unwilling to incur the responsibility for accidents...
Secondly they make us incur a loss of $1,500, the amount realized for several years past at the Thanksgiving game, upon which we have been relying to meet our financial agreements. Last year it was played in Cambridge. The receipts from the game were, as we are informed, some $1,200, all of which went to Harvard. It does not seem just that the Harvard faculty, by an arbitrary action based on reasons which to say the least, will admit of discussion, should at this late hour, after all contracts had been made, cause so great loss...
...accordance with the recommendation of the governor, ought to be cut off. Thereupon another stated that the matter was one that directly concerned the governor, who is commander-in-chief of the militia, and that Massachusetts had some pride in maintaining its dignity, for which it was willing to incur some expense. The report of the committee on military affairs relative to prohibiting the use of funds from the treasury for the payment of a military escort to the governor was then accepted...