Word: soled
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spring of 1888 the oversight of our athletics was taken from the sole authority of the faculty and transferred to that of a representative committee, made up of three faculty members, three graduates and three undergraduates. It has been steadily the aim of this committee to centralize and unify our athletics in order to strengthen them. In following out this policy the committee has sometimes been obliged to take some action whose wisdom the students have not been able to see. The result in several cases has been very unfortunate. Last spring the base ball difficulty arose entirely because...
...Roman father was the sole head of the family and the wife and children were under his charge. The sons and daughters never attained an age at which they were free from the power of the father. When the sons married their wives and children also came into the power of the father and so on, the descendants always being under the power of the oldest male of the family, who controlled all the affairs and who owned all the property and slaves and had the power of life and death over the children. This, as may be seen...
...subscribers have given the cup into the hands of four trustees-Robert Bacon and Henry S. Vanduzer of Harvard, and J. Frederick Kernochan and George A. Adee of Yale, with full power to act as if they were the sole donors, even to changing the original deed of gift. In case of a vacancy occurring among the trustees the remaining representatives shall appoint a new member...
...answer to all this, the H. A. A. management may very likely say: "That is all very well in theory, but if we abolish this rule and consequently our sole source of revenue, how are track athletics going to be supported?" They may claim that our answer rests on a matter as yet wholly in the air. But surely, if one can read the signs, the time when all the 'varsity teams will be mutually self-supporting is not far off. The graduate treasurer speaks most encouragingly of it; everything points to it. Cannot the Harvard Athletic Association trust...
...think about the merits of the case. A captain is assured of the support of the college, when he takes his position, and at the same time he tacitly agrees to work for no other purpose than for the best interests of his team. He therefore is sole judge of his actions, and of late years we can recall no instance where confidence has been misplaced...