Word: rulings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- Allow me to offer a slight remonstrance to your editorial of the other day objecting to the hour examinations. While they may be disagreeable in some cases I think as a rule they are beneficial, especially in hard or doubtful courses. They count very little on the year's mark and no cramming need be done for them except by a few lazy men, whom it will not injure to "brace' once or twice during the year instead of doing all their study for the semiannuals. And they certainly are of great use in giving...
...many, but the tendency is for them to be appropriated by women. Those of large experience are much smaller in number, but the chances are increasing. The prizes of considerable moment, as in most professions, are not many in number. The requirements are very various, and, as a rule, it may be stated that no knowledge comes amiss to a librarian. The preferable knowledge depends wholly upon the kind of library he is to control and the sort of people to whom he is to minister. In general terms, I should say that in fitting one's self for work...
...committee therefore has finally decided that rule twelve means that a scrimmage ends the moment the ball is moved legitimately from a down, and also that rule twenty-nine is in consequence, not applicable to a kick forward...
...question of time being a question of fact could not come before the advising committee acting as a committee of appeals according to the constitution which says, "but this rule shall not be construed as involving questions of fact, the decision of which shall rest solely with the referee...
...handled so unmercifully-but that is impossible. We can say only that the burden of the speech was, "Restore Harvard to her rightful position in athletics by destroying the present vicious law of compensation." Dinners are times for joviality, and last Friday's banquet was no exception to that rule, but still there was hardly a speech that evening which did not turn upon the evils which had beset and were besetting Harvard life, and there was a spirit of earnestness and determination shown which, if transplanted into every class in college without losing any of its vim and courage...