Word: stood
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Tonight a service will be held in Sanders Theatre in commemoration of Francis Parkman, whose recent death took from among the list of Harvard graduates a name which always stood for honor and uprightness and purity of life. During his life Mr. Parkman was always looked upon as a man of rare qualities, whose fine personality shows through all his work as a historian and as a simple man among men. It is eminently fitting that the University from which he graduated should hold a public service of this kind and show the same spirit of affection for the dead...
...been on an open field where each action of the players, the captain and the coachers was in plain sight of everybody who cared to see it. Consequently there has been so far comparatively little adverse criticism of the methods employed. To a rather unusual extent the college has stood behind the team and the coachers; where men have been in doubt about the wisdom of certain plans, they have trusted to better judgment than their own to do the best thing; where moves have been made of which the students approved they have shown their approval most generously...
...undergraduate rule. It was not in the rules of the Intercollegiate Football Association at the time the agreement was made between the two universities, and Captain Hinkey acknowledged that Harvard had a right to put any team in the field that conformed to the rules as they then stood...
...meeting of the Intercollegiate Football Association on Friday night, it was found impossible to transact any business beyond the arrangement for this fall's schedule. To the great dissatisfaction of Princeton and Pennsylvania, Wesleyan stood so firmly with Yale on the undergraduate rule that every ballot taken resulted in a tie, two to two. Pennsylvania proposed in succession the rescinding of the undergraduate rule, the substitution for it of the rules adopted by Harvard and Pennsylvania, and the removal of it from the playing rules; but all these measures were defeated, and the meeting had to adjourn without coming...
...order to be recommended for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, a student must have passed in all prescribed studies and in the requisite number of elective courses. He must, moreover, have stood above Grade D in at least one half of all his college work, and in at least one half of the work of his senior year...