Word: leste
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...kept in check-they cannot be eradicated-by reducing the number of intercollegiate competitions to the lowest terms. The number of these competitions is at present excessive from every point of view. Wrestling, sparring and football-games which involve violent personal collision-have to be constantly watched and regulated, lest they become brutal.- Boston Advertiser...
...fair and legitimate, as is also seizing him about the head, providing he be not choked. So hard has been the ruling this season that many a fine tackler is absolutely afraid to take a man at any spot except almost under the arms. A waist tackler is fearful lest the umpire think him too low; and as for a fair hip tackler-the best, by the way, of any method, because surest, and less likely to injure the man-he has been practically shut out altogether. A captain is almost afraid to call out the old watch-word "Tackle...
...criticisms penetrate to his very marrow? If so, it proves the thorough efficiency of the instructor; if not, Mr. "English 12" has no right to complain. The instructors at Harvard take the students to be more than mere school-boys, who require to be humored and lightly dealt with, lest they "go home and tell their Pa!" Perhaps it might suit our young Ajax were the instructor to say to him, "Oh, please excuse me, Mr. So-and-So, for mentioning it, I really hope you won't mind, but your work is not quite up to Dickens or Thackeray...
...would wish then to caution every man who now enjoys any of these privileges, to take great care lest he should shut out not only himself but also others from enjoying such privileges...
...great extent sitting in judgment upon his own tastes and opinions. Without making any personal reflections whatever, it is surely a bad principle, when so many disinterested judges can be found, to appoint one who has a monetary interest in the success of certain of the competitors. Lest it seem that I feel personally aggrieved, I may state that I was not, and had no thought of being one of the contestants. But as a matter of simple fair play, the board of judges ought hereafter to be differently constituted...