Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...therefore in social facilities, the athletic opportunities of collegiate life fall into disrepute. This has been an occasional reason offered to account for an occasional athletic defeat. The steady increase in the number of lockers in use, until now it has reached a requirement of fifty beyond the limit, is an answer to this criticism of Harvard. But it does seem extraordinary that when so many men are daily thrown into athletic competition, there is not aroused such an emulation that there is no possibility of success against the crimson in any branch of athletics. It is a burning shame...
...affords a stimulating tone to the nerves of the mouth and stomach. This, however, can as well be gained by such drinks as milk or effervescent waters. One and a half fluid ounces of alcohol, the equivalent of a half glass of sherry, in twenty-four hours is the limit of its useful effect. The craving for alcohol is a disease brought about by exposure to hurtful influences or by excessive drinking. All statistics go to show the superior strength of the abstainer from alcohol. In our rapid American life especially, we should put ourselves on the safe side...
...Briggs regrets exceedingly that he is obliged to limit the time at which students may call upon him or consult him. On Tuesday evenings he is always at home, at leisure, and glad to see any member of the university; on Saturday mornings, between ten and eleven o'clock, he will meet in Sever 5 those gentlemen who may wish to consult him about their college work: out side of the regular hours for recitation, students will please come to him at these times only, and communicate to him by letter except in cases of necessity...
...college government. Just as in politics, the nearer the government is to the people governed, the more effective it becomes, so in the case before us. The great reason for this new method of regulating attendance, lies in the fact that each instructor is much better qualified to limit allowable absences than was formerly any central authority, however competent. Then, too, in case of an overstepping of this limit, he will best know how to enforce the proper amount of attendance by depriving the offender of the privileges of the course...
...many branches of athletics are presented at one time (as to the freshmen at the opening of the term) the aggregate becomes a sensible burden to parents who can barely afford the necessary cost of a college education. This, of course, could be met by fixing an absolute limit for such contributions, but on this point the fathers are likely to be as much at sea as their sons...