Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There have been any number of winning track teams in the past, and no very revolutionary changes have occurred since victories were the rule. With 2,500 men to draw from, the amount of raw material is sufficient for two track teams. Yet in 1915 Harvard had only one entry for the hammer-throw and three entries for the pole-vault in the Yale meet. Last year Harvard entered three men to Yale's eleven in the hammer-throw, and three men to Yale's ten in the high jump. At the beginning of this winter's season fifty...
PRINCETON, N. J., Feb. 13, 1917.--The Faculty Committee on Outdoor Sports has just voted to abolish the present two-sport rule, which limited all men to participating in two major sports. The new rule will allow students to compete in any number of major sports for two seasons and with special permission to play in a third season. The rule will go into effect immediately...
...those who love peace better than their souls. The "verge of war" is near us. No complaints of what might have been done in the past, no petty cavilling about the present will suffice us now. We must look only to the future, trusting in those who rule the nation to find the correct solution--whether it be peace...
...Assistant Coach Abbott had squad of men at work on the machine in the gymnasium, although there has been no regular call for candidates. There is a general stir among the oarsmen of Yale soon after the mid-winter term opens, and this year is no exception to the rule. Nickalls will start the regular work of the crew men immediately after the junior promenade, which will be held on February 6. Captain Cord Meyer is ready to start in when the time arrived and Yale undergraduates hope for a better showing on the river next June that was made...
...instructor in English composition Barrett Wendell was probably the foremost of Americans. His textbook, which has generally supplanted the old rule of thumb volumes that made composition one of the dryest of studies, is itself an entertaining literary work. He has endeavored, with considerable success, to make writing a pleasure rather than a task...