Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale athletic games this winter a new feature will be introduced, -a tug-of-war with no limit as to the weight...
Another objectionable feature of their challenge which has hitherto escaped notice is its decided professional tinge. Like any common sporting man in quest of "glory" and money they have issued a general challenge with a time limit, contrary to the custom of all college procedure in cases where championship races have been planned. It is on this ground that the New York Clipper, the most professional of all sporting papers, sustains their action. It says that "In the event of no acceptor appearing, sporting law and custom, meaning the code practised by professional oarsmen, will uphold them." To resort...
...liberal education. What that best may be I have wished might be determined, not by the wishes of the students, but by the combined wisdom of the colleges. That idea I have labored for often under great discouragement, with the impression that it might be realized with a limited amount of money; whereas, if the university idea be admitted, there is no limit to the amount of money which may be used. But this idea, I fear, is becoming obsolete. I fear it is giving place to what seems to me to be a jumble of miscellaneous, high school...
...faculty wish to have them done "decently and in order;" to be managed in such manner as not to interfere materially with the more serious duties of the student, or greatly disturb the ordinarily placid routine of undergraduate life; to make them incidents, not epochs, in college history; to limit their preliminary training within reasonable bounds as to expenditure, either of time or money; to totally abandon the employment of professional trainers or assistants; to avoid undue notoriety and its attendant unhealthy excitement; to forswear all gate-money speculation-in short, to conduct these contests strictly in accordance with...
...White and Shaler expressed themselves at some length. The faculty desired, it was stated, that Harvard should be on even terms with the colleges with which she competed. There were three courses open to the college. Either it should allow the present system to be stretched to its full limit and permit professionalism to gain complete sway over our sports, or it should secure the co-operation of other colleges and abolish all intercourse with professionals, or finally the college should withdraw completely from inter-collegiate contests. Prof. White expressed himself as being strongly in favor of continuing such contests...