Word: rulings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...California now impressive with 8,180 students, and Chicago with its 7,131, were almost unknown in the palmy days of the "Big Four." But this change in order does not argue decadence by any means, in those universities which formerly led. They have had uninterrupted prosperity, as a rule, and an increase of their own. Numbers may indicate prosperity, but there is a prosperity more substantial than they indicate. There is such a thing as an increase of quality as well as of quantity, and those universities which face a limitation of their physical expansion are forced to give...
...perceptible increase in the number of men who enter at this age. The argument that the difficulty of the entrance examinations makes long preparation for college necessary is shown to carry little weight by the fact that the younger members of the present Freshman class, as a rule, did better work than the older ones...
...Executive Committee of the Amateur Hockey League has officially adopted the rule that no player can be checked by another player unless he is actually playing the puck or within striking distance of it. This idea was introduced by Coach Winsor of the University and B. A. A. sevens and will tend to make the game faster and more spectacular. On recommendation of Coach Winsor it was further decided to establish a "neutral zone" about each goal, definitely fixing the distance a player may past forward from behind his goal and the distance he may come out to check...
Very few additional men from 1917 have joined the Union since the appeal for more members. Nevertheless, although classes are usually not allowed to hold smokers in the Union unless 80 per cent are members, the Union has decided to suspend this rule in the case 1917 and to allow the meetings as planed. It is hoped that those who had not joined and who can afford to do will reciprocate the good will of the management by enrolling as soon as possible...
This will be particularly hard on athletes, as the warnings come out in the fall just before the beginning of the basketball, hockey, had swimming seasons, and in the spring, they break into the middle of the baseball season. The new rule will not affect football, as the fall warnings do not come out until the close of the season...