Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...players thus related, may well serve as an example for the profit of the present freshman class. The captain of the team has long been well known as a skilled and enthusiastic foot-ball player, and, if he is only granted the proper support, will do everything in his power to keep alive the interest in foot-ball at Harvard this fall...
...perusal of the above changes, it will be found that the referee is given almost unlimited power; he can declare the ball "down" whenever he sees fit, disqualify a player for off-side or unnecessarily rough play, and declare a game forfeited if either side should seek to gain anything by delay. He is absolute, no one can question his decisions, and he is unhampered by judges. With the proper man as referee, there is no reason why the game should not be entirely freed from its objectionable features...
...began to get limbered, and two sides were selected by Captain Kimball. A short game was played, throughout which the men were coached by Kimball, assisted by Adams, '86. Of course they played in no form, but they show a determination to do all that was in their power to revive the game. By Monday the field will be marked out, and everything will be in readiness for hard work. In the mean time practice will...
...various boarding and lodging house keepers in town Monday night forbidding the holding of punches and other convivial parties. As we do not understand that boarding house keepers are obliged to take out a license from the city for so being, it is presumed that the faculty exerted their power through having the right to say in what places students shall lodge, or what is equivalent, shall not lodge. In this way great moral suasion can be used, and as was the case Monday night, with a good effect. Many a freshman has reason to thank the faculty for their...
...committee shall have power to summon witnesses especially familiar with, or interested in the subject of discussion for that conference...