Word: inflicting
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...help the batting, we ought to do away with a style of catch that restricts batting. It is bad enough as it is that a batsman should be put out on a catch of a foul fly ball without any compensation in running a base. To inflict a double penalty by adding the bound catch is making matters worse...
...When institutions of learning cut themselves off from the sympathy and support of large numbers of men whose lives are intellectual, by refusing to recognize as liberal arts and disciplinary studies languages, literatures and sciences, which seem to these men as important as any which the institutions cultivate, they inflict a gratuitous injury both on themselves and on the country which they should serve. Their refusal to listen to parents and teachers who ask that the avenues of approach to them may be increased in number, the new roads rising to the same grade or level as the old, would...
...grasped in the right hand so that the arm crosses the face diagonally. The hand is protected by a basket hilt of iron, the arm and chest by impenetrable coverings. The left hand is held behind the back. There are only four or five cuts allowed, which, if successful, inflict wounds on the brow, cheek, or chin. The only really dangerous cut is a straight, down ward stroke on the head, which may open the skull but is easily guarded. The favorite stroke is performed by a quick, dexterous turn of the wrist, and inflicts a scratch in the neck...
...caste were alone held in honor, and where the really useful and working part of the community, though not nominally slaves, as in the pagan world, were practically not much better off than slaves, and not more seriously regarded. And how absurd it is, people end by saying, to inflict this education upon an industrious modern community, where very few indeed are persons of leisure, and the mass to be considered has not leisure, but is bound, for its own great good, and for the world's great good, to plain labor and to industrial pursuits, and the education...
...students by the few cases of disorder which occur, than we ourselves ought to be condemned because of the misconduct of a few. An editorial in the current number of the "London Graphic," in commenting on undergraduate life at Oxford, says : The Vice-Chancellor of Oxford has had to inflict a fine of ten pounds on some undergraduates who had been guilty of an offence which used once to be described as "dusting a bobby," but which in these days is no longer spoken of in jocular terms. A spiteful assault committed by several young men upon a solitary policeman...