Word: rule
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...found to prevent the individual voter from exercising his full sway. One of these devices, nomination by a convention made up of delegates from the caucus, throws the power of the caucus directly into the hands of the "machine" which with its active interest in politics, can as a rule, easily control the convention...
...athletics. The difficulty is to find out who they are, as it is impossible to know the motives of a man when he registers. One thing that could be done would be to discourage the solicitation and procurement of athletes from preparatory schools by making a one year rule applicable to undergraduates. No first year men would under this rule be allowed to compete on a University team. The system by which superior athletes are obtained from the lower schools is a much greater abuse today than the migration of athletes from college to college. The fundamental principle...
...From year to year a good many men from the graduate schools make the teams and the very fact that these men beat out undergraduates for the positions, shows that the teams must be strengthened by them. Owing to her small graduate schools. Yale plays few graduates. Such a rule then must inevitably be to our disadvantage. At present the graduate school in some manner offsets the advantage Yale gets by her careful system of attracting the best athletes from the preparatory schools. That Yale does this, by entirely fair means (it is perhaps granted), her own men acknowledge...
Merely from the point of view of competition with Yale then, the proposed rule is one all to their advantage, and leading with us, either to an unfortunate system of seeking for school athletes or consistent inferiority in material...
...imposes an unwarranted hardship upon one class of undergraduates who certainly are entitled to consideration. They will certainly be undergraduates in their Senior year. They are merely pursuing the course advocated by President Eliot, in doing their seven years work in six years. Having no idea that such a rule would be imposed upon them when it was too late to change from 1904 to 1903, they have remained in their own class. And now by a rule almost retroactive in its effect upon them, they are to be excluded from the Yard in what is naturally the most pleasant...