Word: rules
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Trinity College Faculty have ordered that there be no more singing in the Yard or in College buildings; and the students have construed the rule as applying also to Chapel...
...perhaps generally understood that by the new rule, which allows men in one department of the University to share in the advantages of any other department, students of the Law School, Medical School, Bussey Institution, and the other professional schools are allowed to attend morning prayers...
...FOOT-BALL Association was formed, on November 23, by delegates from Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton. The Rugby Union rules were adopted with the exception of rule seven, which was modified so that four touchdowns count a goal. Baker, of Yale, was elected president...
...that of the English in finish, ease, and elegance, whatever it might do in brute strength, the class of competitors being so utterly dissimilar. No heed appears to be paid to coaching or to form, except in the College crews, - Yale, in particular, being a marked exception to the rule. This has been brought about by the captain of the College Boat-Club, who not very long ago paid a visit of some duration to England, and studied the rowing of the University crews, after which he returned to America and put in successful practice what he had learnt...
...have told you more than once, this is a world where many things should be thought and not spoken. A safe rule is never to express an opinion when you can possibly help it; and this rule ought particularly to be observed when you find yourself differing from the popular world on a subject which is not of vital importance to the salvation of either party concerned. As a religious friend of mine once observed, who had been thrashed for expounding to a fast friend his views of the other world, it is well to learn the grace of silence...