Word: staying
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...contest is in progress in the Connecticut Legislature to stay and divert the state's annual grant of $20,000 to the Yale Scientific School...
...year that men will train conscientiously to the last and then, for various reasons, refuse to take part in the meetings. Often, when, to all appearances, the prospect of a large number of entries was good, the meetings have barely escaped from utter failure, because of this tendency to stay out of the competition. Nothing is more discouraging to those on whom the success of the meeting depends, than this backwardness on the part of the men who are counted upon to make up the events. A meagre number of entries certainly do not add to the pleasure...
There is a contest, in progress in the Connecticut legislature to stay and to divert the state's annual grant of $20,000 to the Yale Scientific School...
Then again it would probably stimulate kicking, and especially long passes toward the ends as well as end running. The wedge play is not all brute force. The large college teams showed them as models of skill and clever head work. The wedge should stay in football, but a provision of some kind should insure a necessity of other play during a contest. It ought to be a possible play, but not all the play, and legislation which will induce the captain for the interest of his team to use other plays as well, is the legislation that will...
Prof. Summer, of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, has just returned from his two years stay in Europe...