Word: rulings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Twenty-one competitions for manager-ships have been carried on according to the rules governing these competitions. A new rule made this year provides that competitions shall last one-half of the regular season of the sport, or at least six weeks. A petition was made to the Council that the president of the Musical Review be made an ex-officio member of the Council. The petition was turned down on the ground that the paper was not of a sufficiently representative nature to warrant its adoption. An attempt was made to have the Christmas vacation lengthened. On consultion with...
...work of the sub committees successfully is that there has been very little continuity of effort from year to year. The new members each year find it difficult to pick up the thread where it has been left the year before. Accordingly the executive committee passed a rule this year that all sub committees must keep a book, containing the minutes of its meetings, and an account of all the work undertaken by it. This seems to me to be the keynote to the future development of the Council. Most of the important work of the Council is done through...
Yale claims that no three-year rule exists between Harvard and Yale in track and that at any time in the past nine years, Yale could have used Freshman or graduate athletes against Harvard. The fact that Yale has not tried to use such men, until last Saturday, would lead to the conclusion that a three-year rule was recognized, even if no three-year agreement existed. That such an agreement does exist seems clear...
...generally admitted, except perhaps by extreme optimists, that the college graduate does not as a rule display the learning and power which four years of reading, attending lectures, and studying lead one to expect. Some of the shortcomings may be blamed, as the Alumni Bulletin has pointed out, to the failure of preparatory schools to teach methods of study; but some may also be charged to the haphazard nature of most teaching in the University...
...limited, nor are they themselves subject in their utterances to the direction of the authorities. On the contrary, we have endeavored to maintain the right of all members of the University to express themselves freely, without censorship or supervision by the authorities of the University, and have applied this rule impartially to those who favor Germany, and those who favor the Allies--to the former in the face of a pretty violent agitation for muzzling professors by Alumni of the University and outsiders. This policy of freedom of speech we shall continue to pursue, for we believe...