Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entirely in accord with the effort made by the students of this University so to reform college sports that they shall hereafter be played under rules which will limit participation in them to bona fide members of the University, who have never had any pecuniary profit from their sport; and we heartily approve the new rules (subjoined), which have lately been unanimously adopted by the Harvard Football and Baseball Associations, and have been sent to us with the request that they receive our sanction. They provide that no one shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public athletic...
...still further and say that no money was paid to any of the gentlemen except upon their presentation of vouchers covering the amount of the preceeding week's expenses, all of which vouchers I have in my desk and can produce if necessary. The amount we limited you to per week for board and lodging cannot in any way be regarded as payment for your services, as in limiting you to a certain amount it was not intended that it should be looked upon as an allowance for your services, but we merely wanted to have a limit...
...would be contrary to the constitution, for it would limit the powers expressly given to the president and senate-U. S. Constitution, article 2, section 2; Congressional Record...
...leaving college, but those who had already formed the habit in college soon fell into confirmed drunkenness. It is during youth then, between 17 and 25, that a man's habits are formed. At that time he often has great confidence in himself that he will not transgress the limit which he calls soberness, but gradually he becomes more and more entangled until he reaches the border of the precipice where the arch enemy of souls finds his greatest hunting ground. It is the first step then that is accountable for all. Once make yourself a drunkard, and drunkenness does...
Judge Cooley said that the lawful power of the state to limit the rates of transportation is now acknowledged. If the government owned the railroads it would be a comparatively simple matter to regulate rates, for it might establish a standard of rates which seemed expedient. Such action might arouse criticism, it might involve political complications, but it would simply be on the analogy of our laws relating to taxation. For over fifty years railroads were managed by corporations before any attempt was made to regulate rates. But the irresponsible and arbitrary action of corporations finally forced first the state...