Word: move
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last secured a firm foothold among other legitimate collegiate sports. With flourishing teams at Princeton, Yale and Harvard, the association may reasonably hope to see a rapid spread of the game to other colleges. The adoption of a modified list of playing rules by the convention was a move of great importance for the future of the game. These, if published, will afford all an opportunity to acquire acquaintance with the theory of the game, and this will tend to add great interest to it for outsiders...
...last defeat. There is no record of Harvard ever having been defeated by another college lacrosse team. At this time an attempt was made to form a second team, but there is no evidence that the idea was carried into practice. About this time a wise move was the payment of $25 toward the cost of the net in the gymnasium, whereby the lacrosse team secured the right, next after the ball nine, to use the cage...
...Harvard faculty in general as to the system. The question is certainly one of the highest moment in university administration, and the importance of a thorough reform in the methods at present in vogue is becoming more and more clearly recognized. That Harvard will soon find it necessary to move in the matter seems to be an idea that is daily gaining ground. Whether the outcome of any reform will result in the adoption of some modification of the "Amherst system," adapted to the larger requirements of a university, or in some totally new system, it is useless to conjecture...
...grossest and most flagrant intemperance, appears in a late number of the National Temperance Advocate, a story which it would be superfluous to deny. There may be a kind of temperance which the journal we have quoted does not profess to advocate but which motives of consistency might move it to adopt. Temperance of speech is not the least of the virtues...
...degree than is now existent. The system of separate colleges is not necessary, but perhaps the separation of dormitories might partially effect the same object, especially if more uniform rates of rent were secured. Some one may object that in Germany no such college division exists, and yet men move in cliques of taste and thought and form companionships of creed. But in Germany there are all sorts of societies and bands which answer the purpose equally well...