Word: rule
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...pamphlet on the Courses of Study in Yale College for the year 1906-1907 was issued Saturday. The most important feature of this year's pamphlet is the change in the "Anticipation Rule." Hereafter this privilege will be restricted to those who have maintained a general scholarship grade of 260 or above throughout the previous year. Men having a deficiency, due to failure in a course previously taken, or who are obliged to take extra hours to make up for absences will be debarred from this privilege...
...wages. The larger possibilities of the system are trammelled by the law that compels the banker who wants to extend his credit in the form of notes, to deposit in the Treasury United States bonds equivalent in value to the amount of notes he proposes to issue. By this rule those who cannot make use of the loan and deposit credit, which is relatively cheap, are obliged to trade by means of monies capital--that is, coin and greenbacks--which is a comparatively expensive process. This is most unjust, because the burden falls chiefly on the rural districts which...
...still gazing upon her bloody work. She steps forward and calmly exults in what she has done, trusting to Aegisthus to defend her cause. The chorus advances upon the usurper, Aegisthus, who stands ready to fight. Clytaemnestra, however, intervenes and leads him away saying that she and he will rule the palace...
...Play the game within the rules and lose or win with honor" is the second law, and it is to support this rule that professionals are excluded from the games of amateurs...
...hardest rule of all is perhaps the eighth: "The true sportsman is a good loser in his games. He must keep his temper and his courage under the most trying conditions...