Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...understood that the faculty is far from giving up its project of the inter-collegiate regulation of athletics. The faculty, it is claimed, were chiefly influenced in reconsidering their recent action by the attitude of other colleges, which seemed to be generally unfavorable to the regulations as they stand. It will again make determined efforts to secure the passage of the regulations in a modified form, however, so that they will meet with the approval of enough colleges to give them binding force. Meanwhile the students, we presume, are expected to occupy an attitude of doubtful patience...
...Grove, was occupied by some Union batteries which held the enemy in check while the crowd of fugitives from Howard's corps rushed through the line of guns to the rear. Major Huntington was himself present and in command of these batteries, and it was due to their gallant stand that the army was not totally demoralized on that day. This check at Hazel Grove compelled the confederates to wait till it was too dark for further advance that evening...
...following, as a whole, then, are the main objections to the rules as they stand...
...boat club has had a crew in training for several months to row four-mile races with Yale and with Columbia; if these resolutions are to be enforced as they stand, the whole course of training will have to be changed, thus impairing our chances of victory; unless Yale agrees to the rules, the prime purpose for which the crew is in training will have to be abandoned, as the race cannot be rowed. In case the race with Yale is abandoned, it is believed that the race with Columbia will not cause sufficient interest to keep the crew together...
Finally, this rule, if allowed to stand, would tend to defeat one of the very purposes or which those who drew it up are supposed to be stiving-the placing of all athletic contests between the various colleges on a footing as nearly equal as possible. For the larger and richer colleges could afford to pay more for athletic instructors, and would consequently be able to get better men, than the smaller and poorer colleges...