Word: proviso
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...final action was taken. This action will it is believed be satisfactory to all parties. If Yale names the place this year, it is expected that she will allow Cornell to name the place next year. Harvard asks no privileges this year; there is hence no need of any proviso in accepting her challenge. Yale's suggestion of a willingness to merge her race of this year in a triangular one also is accepted, only the race is agreed upon. Cornell asks to name the place of the Yale-Cornell race next year. She does not hereby put any pressure...
...following colleges and universities were elected to membership: Holy Cross College, University of Rochester, University of Wisconsin, Columbian University of Washington, D. C., Boston University, Washington and Jefferson College. Union College was reinstated as a full member, with the proviso that no athlete who had competed under its colors in the last two years should be eligible for competition in the future. This shuts C. H. Kilpatrick, holder of the world's record for the half mile, out of any further competition in collegiate championships...
...this latest gift $1,000,000 goes to the university unconditionally. To the remaining $2,000,000 the proviso is attached that the trustees are to raise a similar amount or its equivalent between this time and the beginning of the year 1900. This additional money is to be exclusive of any that may be pledged at this time. The trustees say they have not the least fear of being unable to raise the full amount and assert that the entire $3,000,000 is already as good as theirs...
...harm will result, but we say it with a proviso. We mean that there is no harm in the change, considered strictly in itself, but that there might be a great deal of harm if it were interpreted as the first step to an introduction of co-education in the College. The College is quite different from the Graduate School, and must ever remain so. What is very likely good for the Graduate School would not be for the College. Circumstances are altogether different in the two departments. We are aware that the experiment of coeducation has been tried elsewhere...
...photographs and trophies that may be added, and also to take care of the trophies, if that seems the most feasible plan. Herbert H. White, manager of athletics, is ready to pay any necessary bill that may be incurred in obtaining the missing pictures. He makes a proviso, however, that there must be some likelihood that the precedent of having all records and trophies placed in the room shall be maintained in the future...