Word: rulings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Coach Bigelow welcomed the candidates, and spoke briefly on the season's plans. He emphasized the fact that members of the squad this year must be more than ever before, able to play offense and defense alike, since the changes in the intercollegiate rules have curtailed the number of players of any team who may play in one game to twelve, one of whom must be a goaltender. This new clause was aimed at the policy of wholesale substitution so much in vogue among eastern colleges Coach Bigelow declared that the rule might be waived at the Harvard-Yale games...
Last week, with only 39 days in which to vote the budget for next year, Premier Poincaré convoked the Chamber and demanded that the 58 interpolations on the calender be postponed. Twenty-four of the 58 would-be interpolaters took advantage of the rule allowing them five minutes to explain what they wanted to talk about. Deputy Vaillant Couturier (Communist) screamed: "Mussolini is an assassin!" Calm, Premier Poincaré avoided an ''international incident" by pretending that the remark had been addressed to himself. Said he: "We are used to being called names by M. Vaillant Couturier." When...
...point with pride to Oxford, whether they have ever been there or not, as the archetype of all that is liberal and humanistic in a university. Nor is the comparison without color on many academic counts. On the social side, however, much is left unsaid. On Oxford's rule-books stand many quaint restrictions hanging over from the crabbed past-curfew hours, the wearing of gowns (however abbreviated and however disreputably tattered), places to be seen in and not to be seen in, absence from town and other critical matters. Last fortnight a little grey pamphlet made its appearance...
...days of old so often celebrated things were much different at least at Yale. Trembling in his homespuns at the sight of a superior if only in age the poor Freshman was parceled out, body and clothing all to be regulated by a different set of rules. Each move of the first year underlings might involve the breaking of a rule for which fracture or infringement he might be hailed to the bar of upper class justice to be tried converted and sentenced to bed without supper all within five brief minutes...
What Bacchanalian tendencies of dress or undress, what custom of venturing forth in airy raiment is throttled by the following rule remains a asrtorial secret...