Word: limited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...noticed at the sale of tickets for the winter meeting at the Co-operative Society yesterday morning that several men bought more than five tickets, the number which was fixed beforehand as the limit. They accomplished this by presenting at the desk one or more membership tickets not their own. It seems to us that this is rather unfair. That some men should be enabled to buy their tickets through a friend without any trouble to themselves seems unjust to the men who stand so long in line. Men may obtain in this manner good tickets, while some of those...
...meeting of the National League of base-ball clubs held at Buffalo on March 4th, the only change made in the rules of the game was to limit the pitcher to six called balls instead of seven...
...seems to us that in college athletics as in graver matters in life, the degree of excellence attained and the resulting benefit to the participants both depend largely on the stimulus afforded by wide opportunity for competition. We think it very undesirable to limit in any way, not entirely necessary, the scope of inter-collegiate contests in athletics, and, while approving of proper restrictions, earnestly deprecate the narrowing of the field which would result from the adoption of such a resolution by a comparatively small number of colleges. In consideration of the widely differing conditions of American colleges, absolute equality...
...what may be amusing to any of them at one table may be annoying to those who happen to be sitting within hearing distance. To be sure, nothing very serious has happened as yet, but, if any license is allowed for bovish pranks and undignified conduct, there is no limit to which this abuse may not extend. It would be a pity for visitors in the gallery to witness anything unbecoming the conduct of gentlement in the strictest sense...
...following is the list of sports at the coming winter meetings at Yale: Vaulting, horizontal bar, rope climbing, standing high jump, running high jump, high kick, fencing; wrestling-heavy, middle, light and feather-weight; boxing-heavy, middle, light and feather-weight; tug-of-war, (600 lbs. limit...