Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...university athletics because so many of their members are college graduates. But it cannot be doubted that this association is not in every way to the advantage of the universities. We do not wish to imply here that there are no clubs which do not at least aim to maintain a purely amateur standing, but there can be no question that there have been within a few months so-called amateur contests which could not have been held as such without a stretch either of term or of conscience. Now when University men, even of unquestioned standing, associate themselves...
...brought together by legalized pooling would have more power over commerce than the Congress of the United States.- (ii) From this unrestrained control of business interests dangerous abuses would spring.- (e) It took a railroad pool to perpetrate the Standard Oil Monopoly.- (f) Why should not permanent pooling combinations maintain in the same way discrimination over any and every important industry...
...defeated party opened negotiations in April for a football game. Yale officially terminated these negotiations by Captain Thorne's letter of May 11. In common courtesy it was Yale's part to reopen negotiations if they were to be renewed at all. It was Harvard's place to maintain a dignified silence until an invitation should come from Yale. The plan by which certain Harvard graduates who neither had nor claimed to have authority to make agreements were to unite with certain Yale graduates in inviting Captains Thorne and Brewer to a conference, and by which Yale should not invite...
...championship games with percentages of 429 and 467 respectively, and Stephenson has the highest fielding average, 972, of the men playing any large number of games. The Y. M. C. A. has arranged to extend its work more systematically into the Sheffield School and will hereafter maintain a reading room near the Sheff. buildings. The reception given to the freshman class under the auspices of the association was a decided success...
...college, particularly of those who are here for the first time, to the opening of the regular club debates this evening. While we look with just pride upon our victories in the forensic field in the past, we must do earnest work if we are to maintain this standard...