Word: limitation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last, but was postponed, was contested Tuesday morning at the grounds of the Manhattan Athletic Club. The Columbia team consisted of Oscar Bodelson, 129 1/4 pounds; John Banks, 152 3/4 pounds; F. L. Henry, 169 1/2 pounds, and W. F. Morgan, 143 1/2 pounds; total weight, 594 1/4 pounds; limit, 600 pounds. The College of the City of New York men were F. Pfeiffer, 138 pounds; R. Cronson, 141 pounds; O. T. O'Neil, 137 1/2 pounds, and F. Miller, 150 1/2 pounds; total weight, 567 pounds. The choice of position was won by the Columbia team, and, after...
...Union boat-house, the walk along the street side of the course and the tug were the scenes of the wildest excitement at the close. In spite of the inclement weather, large crowds witnessed the race, and their enthusiasm had no limit. The '84 and '85 men naturally had a down-cast look, but nevertheless they were loudly cheered, while '82 and '83 received a perfect ovation...
...formed in the stream of the world.' It is in cities, in those centres of stirring life, that the character of men should be developed, their higher courses of study pursued; in other words, a city is the place for a university. As a university, I see no limit to the possibilities of Columbia's power and influence, if she keep her face turned unflinchingly in the direction of progress...
...must be denied to a tender stripling of twenty-one. Far more naturally, liberty of choice in this matter should be given when one arrives at his majority. Of course there is no peculiar charm or virtue in one age over another, but, as we have said, if a limit must be set somewhere, the age of twenty-one and the junior class would seem to be a more natural limit than that which now prevails. However, for the matter of that, it is altogether impossible to see any satisfactory reason why attendance should be compulsory...
...Sargent lectures in Sever 11 this afternoon at 2 P. M., on "The Limit of Development and the Result of Over-training...