Word: plain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton are somewhat superstitious. They are now urging the advisability of changing the traditional striped jersey, worn by their foot-ball team, for some plain color after the style of Yale and Harvard, thinking thereby to better their chances and to propitiate the fickle goddess of fortune. We should regret the change and miss the unique colors and striking effects produced by the fear-inspiring "tigers...
...rules adopted at the last foot-ball convention in regard to the block game seem likely to answer their purpose exactly. It was plain during the last season's contests that victories would likely be very much the result of chance unless the safety touch was made to enter into the final score. And it naturally followed that this would make the best basis from which to reckon higher scores. A touchdown now equals two, a goal from the field five, and a goal from a touchdown six safeties. No doubt can be entertained concerning the relation between goals from...
...opinion on the subject which wins approbation from some of our best legal authorities and most devoted friends of the university. The concluding part of his last article is subjoined : "The overseers voted to reserve the right to revoke degrees not held longer than one week. This language is plain. It indicates unmistakably that the degree may be voted, handed over, and then probably reclaimed. The writer's argument discusses the power of the overseers to take a much milder stand - to abstain from the final execution of the charter-power until certain conditions are fulfilled. This question...
...privileges, that of voluntary recitations. I do not believe that is the way students of Harvard have heretofore obtained favors from the faculty, and I am very much inclined to think that such measures are apt to do our cause more harm than good. Now that it is perfectly plain that the faculty were helpless in the matter, and had been transcending their powers in previous years, I think that every one will see in what poor taste were the remarks which appeared in some of the college papers. I feel sure that in the case of these papers, their...
...practices - practices too long upheld by the unfortunate traditions of that college. Harvard, we are assured, will take no action which can cause her to lose her own self-respect, nor, we hope, the respect of other colleges. But a reform must be made, and it is now the plain duty of Harvard to be the first to move in the matter...