Word: stopping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Report of Dean Briggs.In the annual report of the Dean, considerable attention is given to the discussion of the struggle which has been made to suppress dishonesty in written work. He recites the attempt made to stop such dishonesty two years ago and the failure of that attempt. Dean Briggs thinks that the reason for this state of College morals is found in the double standard,-a shifting for the convenience of the moment, from the character of a responsible man to the character of an irresponsible boy. "The administrative officers," says he, "accept without question a student's word...
...hiss, as those of us who were at the last few Class Days well remember. Then they leave Cambridge with fine impressions of the Harvard man! The mere fact that only one such case of dirty work is liable to occur ought to be enough to stop the exercises. Finally, there is absolutely no regularity or order about the "scrimmage," except such as is furnished by the club organizations; and that is a regularity that none of us want. If the scrimmage had some of the points of football in it, there might be some reason for keeping...
...greatest objection to the use of Soldiers Field for the track team is that its great distance from the Yard would cause to stop training almost all of that large proportion of the candidates who try for the team merely for the exercise and the pleasure, without expecting or hoping to make it. It is from among these men that many members of the team are developed each year. The lessened gate receipts and smaller attendance at practice games of the nine are important to note...
...valuable to them in an educational way. The faculty should give its students all the training and assistance in debating posible all through their course. Then when they are trained debaters let the best be chosen for the intercollegiate debates and go it alone. The active assistance should stop there. The educational value of training by the faculty does not consist in providing three debaters with speeches on the subject for the intercollegiate debate...
Yale's only touchdown was the result of a blocked kick by Rodgers. After this Yale was entirely on the defensive, and utterly unable to stop Princeton's tandem interference which was at all times remarkably effective. Princeton scored twice in the first half and Baird kicked both goals. In the second half three touchdowns were made for Princeton, but Baird missed every try for goal...