Word: sanctioned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...closing invocation is one which we are thankful to say, our faculty does not sanction; and if every game is as free from the objectionable features as Saturday's was, the career of foot-ball not only is not on the wane but has before it greater opportunities than any it has yet embraced...
...willingness to meet and defeat physical dangers and an ability to think connectedly in the presence of physical dangers, to an extent offered by no other form of exercise.' The game that presents such an array of purely scientific and courageous features cannot fail to merit the most universal sanction and approval, and yet newspaper criticism doubtless caused the 'general disposition to consider the game one which is objectionable as a game for students who are gentlemen.' The criticisms passed upon the game as regards its innate roughness' and of its 'tendency to degenerate into brutality and personal combat...
Harvard College treats the students as men; the students, however, act in some instances, like the merest children. The performances of last Monday night can find no sanction in the minds of candid and impartial men. The class of '91, represented by a number of its uncontrolled spirits, has made for itself an unenviable reputation early in its career. If these men believe because men smile at their follies and do not treat them as their fathers did before they came to college, that therefore their actions are meritorious, they are very much mistaken, and have much yet to learn...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: "Faithful James" takes up the cudgel in his masters' behalf and says the Executive Committee as a whole did not sanction the guard. How does "James" know? If this is thus why did the so-called vote of censure apply to the Executive Committee as a whole? Did any member of the Committee disclaim responsibility at any time for that measure? If so, how many, when and where? "James" you have the floor...
...judgment should not be hasty, but yet the plan seems admirable in every respect. A full meeting to night could do no better than sanction the proposition submitted by the directors...