Word: rigidity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conclusion, we may state that although adverse to minute or rigid restrictions upon college sports, we fully appreciate the necessity of excluding therefrom all spirit of professionalism, and would willingly see the University of Pennsylvania enter into any reasonable agreement in the matter which the colleges of the Eastern and Middle States might think advisable...
...most of the other European countries the education is similar to that of the Prussian system, but not so rigid and complete. The result is that Germany has not only the largest and finest equipped army, but also the most enlightened and educated soldiers in the world...
...against all present, active connection with any form of "professionalism" and the so called "sporting world"-an objection which we still hold to be somewhat vague and ill-defined in spite of the arguments to the contrary expressed at this conference. We cannot believe that the alternative is so rigid as Pres. Eliot has urged. Whatever excess and whatever tendendency to professionalism there has been of late years can be corrected without such sweeping changes as the faculty proposes. A middle course is possible to this extent, that we can retrace our steps and place college athletics once again...
...former stroke was a short sweep, with a quick recover ; now the sweep is very long, the recovery slow. In the former stroke the legs and back were used in a quick, jerky manner, which is now superseded by not using the legs at all, the back being kept rigid until the completion of the stroke...
...season at Princeton, N. J. The work of the team has from the first been deserving of all praise and they go to meet their first opponent backed by the confidence and best wishes of the entire college. The chief merit of Princeton's team this year is their rigid determination to beat Harvard in some way or other, and their wonderful confidence in being able to do so. They are strong where we are weakest, namely in the halfbacks, and they endeavor to play the entire game in that part care of Mr. Robinson they even surpass the remarkable...