Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Freshmen in good standing are required to attend their last class before and their first class after all holidays, whether they are one-day holidays or holidays of longer duration. Freshmen in good standing breaking this rule, except on account of illness or some other unavoidable reason, will be placed on probation. Freshmen on trial breaking this rule, except on account of illness or some other unavoidable reason, will doubtless have their trial closed...
Last year, racked with rheumatism, he said: "I think journalism is the worst of all professions. It is precarious, remuneration is very low, one's position is, as a rule, reduced by old age, and of all the brilliant things a journalist may write none will be remembered permanently. Although I have had some success in journalism. I agree with the verdict my friend, John Morley,* rendered when he spoke of me as having had a squandered life." Twinkling, he added: "Any man is a damned fool who can work in bed and doesn...
...ball, though on a great many he does not rush. One of the favorite plays from this position found one of the interfering halfbacks receiving the ball from the quarterback on a simple crossbuck and diving into the strong side of the line. The play wasn't as a rule very effective against Dartmouth but it affords a contrast to the usual straight run and might be a real weapon if used at less frequent intervals. With Booth at quarterback, however, the chief ground gaining plays found him doing the carrying behind a devastating line drive. Time and again...
...contemplate any replacement of Prince Nicholas. It is even less permissible to make such replacement an object of bargaining. "If the Government really believes that a preponderance of the royal family in the Regency means danger to the country this discloses the Government's own ambition to rule in the Regency Council. Is a second dynasty to rule besides the present royal family? Domination of others than members of the royal family produces no happy results." Anxious Rumanians feared a grave crisis, the pitting of the Royal Dynasty against the Peasant Government, the raising of the issue whether Rumania...
Those who established the present faculty rule in regard to the time of starting of football games no doubt had a laudable purpose in view; but their concern for the academic and digestive well-being of students rather overshot its mark and struck with acute discomfort at the other end. The shades of dusk form pretty enough material for the sentimental moments in hard, slashing football stories, but for the spectators, they are a gloomy touch that succeeds in destroying a good part of the afternoon's pleasure. It is assumed that the long-delayed adoption of numbers for players...