Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...athletic policy, which I ask to be noted as the pith of this letter. Under the present system where students are at a loss to know what will be done next, or whether their outlays and training may be made naught at the last moment by some unlooked-for rule of novelty, it is not to be wonder that the teams are supported by the college listlessly, and that they themselves play with a feeling of indifference and a proneness to lay their continued defeats at the door of the faculty under whose regulations they labor with difficulty...
...enthusiasm, or rather the lack of enthusiasm, with which the college has supported the various athletic organizations in the past has ever been a fruitful theme of complaint on the part of the different college papers, and this fall has been no exception to the rule. But the attendance of three or four hundred students at a foot-ball game played in a drenching rain must have been a matter of surprise to any stranger who might have been present at Saturday's game. In no better way can the college show its appreciation of the praiseworthy efforts...
...rule at Williams neither the home nor the visiting foot ball team is allowed to use the gymnasium after the games...
...ished this morning, and we trust they will be obeyed to the letter. In voting to join the Republican procession, the classes stated that their action was not to be considered as being significant of their political views, and therefore we hope that every one will observe the rule about transparencies and cheering for candidates. We would caution the men to preserve as perfect order as possible; in view of the disgraceful exaggerations concerning Harvard recently made by the press, we cannot be too careful. Let us give these newsmongers no chance to cast mud at us. Above all there...
...consider and report promplly on the advisability of making attendance upon recitations and lectures compulsory." This action shows plainly that either the overseers fail to understand the way in which attendance at recitations is regulated by the present system, or else labor under the delusion that in such a rule as they propose lies the only way of making students appear regularly at recitations. In the first place, at the present time the instructor is the judge as to whether or not a student comes to recitations regularly enough to warrant his remaining in the course, and if a warning...