Word: puts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conduct, has anywhere been held to render the recipient ineligible for membership of a crew, a nine, or an eleven. It would have been much more to the point to have presented evidence in the "official statement" in refutation of the wide-spread opinion that three of the players put on the field by Princeton at the beginning of the year, two of whom played against Yale and Harvard, are professionals, and ineligible, for any college team. One of these gentlemen, Mr. Ames, is currently reported to have received specific sums of money for his services on base-ball teams...
...opinion, that the action of Harvard, in withdrawing from the Intercollegiate Football League, is justified. To put on teams players who are not bona fide students has a pernicious effect on the teams, on the colleges, and on the sport. College athletics have become infected with professionalism, and there is no prospect of improvement under the present League. The spirit of recent conventions has been that of casting formal difficulties in the way of a proper agreement between gentlemen. We are convinced that the League in its present form is an obstacle to genuine sport...
...library authorities have determined to permit no longer the use of dictionaries at the tables for assistance in translating. These are put on the delivery room shelves with other reference books, for such use as can be made at the shelves. The authorities intend also to prevent the continuous use of the manuals and texts in study, and in the class rooms...
...shall certainly regret if this trip causes you and your friends any trouble, but you can rest assured that I shall put myself to any amount of trouble, and go before any Examining Board that requests it, and testify to the facts in the matter. I shall be very glad to see you if you come to New York...
...needs to be practiced as well as understood. We do not propose to launch forth into extended exhortations-a style too common in college and school publications-but merely to call to mind the facts. Harvard tried her very best in football this past season. The result was she put into the field the best team she has ever had, and made a better showing than she has ever made before-this with an unbroken line of defeats in the past for encouragement. In other branches of athletics she has a better record to encourage her. There seems...