Word: limitation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...events will take place as follows; 2.30, mile walk; 2.30, hammer; 2.40, 100 yards (limit), (trial heats); 2.50, running high jump; 3.05, 120 yards hurdles; 3.10, 100 yards (limit), (final heat); 3.15, 1/2 mile run; 3.20, 100 yards (open); 3.25, running broad jump; 3.30, 220 yards; 3.35, mile run; 3.35, shot; 3.45, quarter mile run; 3.50, pole vault; 4.00, 100 yards (foot-ball); 4.05, 220 yards (foot-ball). Contestants must be on their marks on time...
...Bloomfield Lacrosse Club. The third match will be between the New York Club twelve - the present holders of the cup - and the Princeton College twelve. The National Association rules govern the games, and each match will be decided by the best three out of five goals, the time limit being one hour. If neither side scores three goals in that time the most goals scored within the hour will decide the match...
...direct conclusion was reached in the discussion over the limit of time during which a player might remain a member of the university team; but, finally, it was voted to leave the matter to the discretion of the delegates to the inter-collegiate foot-ball convention shortly to be held to determine the proper limit...
...committee earnestly desires to limit the tickets to the senior class. There is a tendency for class day to become a general holiday in Cambridge; and thus to lose its exclusive character as a day on which the graduating class receives its friends. This tendency the committee wishes to check, and it counts upon the cordial support of the college...
...here the power of perseverance comes most into play in insuring continued success. The old story of undue precocity partly explains the phenomenon. The gradual oncoming of a certain blase spirit, resulting from the weariness of overforced mental activity, is remarkable in many cases. With some, college is the limit of mental growth; with many, but the beginning. There are many consolations for the ambitious but temporarily unsuccessful in all these facts of our daily observation, as well as in the more commonplace truism as to the college standing of famous...