Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wasteful short sighted nominations. But now that the clubs have given up their slate the responsibility which they used to shoulder falls on the class at large. And this responsibility can never be lived up to unless the separate members of the Senior class exercise caution and self restraint in making as well as in accepting nominations. If it is too late for the nominators to be careful, the man who is nominated can still decide whether it would be better for the election if be ran or if he resigned...
...visiting team to the discretion of those managing the debates at each college. The banquets have never been successful since they are necessarily held at a very late hour. The judges are tired, and the defeated team is in no mood for enjoyment, while the winners are under constant restraint to keep their satisfaction from adding to the discomfiture of their opponents. The new arrangement bids fair to be both more graceful and more satisfactory to everybody. Another important change is in the order of rebuttal speeches. During the coming year the affirmative instead of the negative will make...
Before last year, when a Sophomore dinner was held for the first time in many years, the annual junior dinners while appreciated and distinctly worth while in increasing spirit of class fellowship, were always under a certain vague restraint due to an often unrealized formality on the part of men who felt constrained by the presence of members of their own class...
...subsequent Junior dinner may be made an unqualified success. Of this possibility we have last evening's dinner as a practical example. The informal reception held beforehand, enabled classmates previously unacquainted to meet each other, and to it we believe was due in measure the almost entire absence of restraint throughout the evening...
During the last few years the colleges have learned to realize more and more the necessity of consistent and methodical restraint, if athletics are to be retained in their normal position, subordinate to intellectual work. Each has, in its own way, tried to supply the needed regulations for itself. The result is that much progress has thus been made. But at the same time, and for the very reason that each college has thus worked on its own lines, the conflict of various opinions and interests has caused great confusion. The different systems of restraint are so difficult to bring...