Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Woman suffrage is inexpedient. (a) The great majority of women do not desire suffrage. (b) The class of women who would make use of it would, as a rule, belong to the ignorant and degraded classes in large cities.- New Englander, 1884, p. 206-7. (c) The influence of the Roman Catholic Church would be vastly increased.- Forum IV, 14-15. (d) It would add 2,300,000 illiterate and ill-qualified voters to the 1,900,000 already existing...
...Without the incentive to gain the supremacy in intercollegiate contests, the University crew, ball nine, foot-ball and Mott Haven teams would not be kept up. To win first honors, no effort is spared to bring each to the highest point of excellence. When the rule probibiting the nine from practice games with professionals and from the employment of a professional coach went into effect, the nine was not only denied the most important privilege which the other teams continued to enjoy, but it was so badly handicapped that it was no longer able to hold its high place...
...other coaching can give. The annual matches between Harvard and Yale commenced in 1868. Up to 1880, Harvard won every series except in '74 and '75. During this period, practice games with professionals was all the coaching the nine received, except under the direction of the captain. Since the rule of the faculty was passed prohibiting all professional games or coaching, the nine has lost every series with Yale save one in 1885, and furthermore has, with one or two exceptions, never won an uphill game. I feel so strongly the importance of this practice to the success...
PIERIAN SODALITY.- Rehearsal Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock sharp. Nomember who is not present at this rehearsal will be allowed to play in the concerts. This rule will be strictly enforced...
...cause of our losing to some extent, the library privileges. The system of borrowing reserved books, excellent though it may be, is, nevertheless, but a makeshift, and in comparison with the freedom of consulting books during the day, accom plishes its purpose indifferently. Necessary as it is, the rule requiring the books to be returned by 9 o'clock makes it at times a real bore to take out a reserved book-so much so, in fact, that many men who have a true desire to study are unwilling to take the trouble of borrowing from the reserved shelves...