Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rest of the field is too muddy and bids fair to remain so a week or more. Most of the work is in batting on Holmes field. Three nets were up yesterday and the freshman candidates did the pitching. The number of candidates will be reduced to the minimum very shortly...
There is a third method left which is eminently fair as it reduces the element of luck to the minimum. Let the decision be made on the percentage of points won, that is, in the case just cited, the first couple would have won 47 per cent, and the second, 58 per cent. This would really let every couple show what they could do in 48 hands, and it stands to reason that luck would even itself more in 48 than 16 hands...
There are however, some facts in connection with this effort for the "purification of athletics" which are not generally known and which ought to be well understood. Yale cannot justly claim to be the originator of this scheme to reduce college athletics to the minimum of professionalism, as current reports would seem to imply. In point of fact Harvard made a proposition to Yale in May of 1890 which practically covered the ground now taken by Yale. This proposition contained articles of agreement which should regulate all contests in football, baseball, rowing. and track and field athletics. The article...
...public must be benefited by a check on the express companies, the offspring of the railway, which enjoy all privileges of common carriers, with none of their restrictions. Their present system is a burden. The enormous loss of life could also be brought to the minimum by legislation compelling the adoption of the automatic coupler, proper danger signals, and other new and necessary improvements. Two thirds of our railways are trying to secure this legislation. That the Inter-State Commerce Act is not adequate for many important questions is the declaration of the commerce commission. That further national legislation would...
...this way it is hoped to encourage the best schools in their efforts to send boys who will not only meet the minimum requirements well, but distinguish themselves in one or more departments for which they have special aptitude...