Word: stopping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...little later. The candidates at present are J. B. Lowell '94, A. Harding '94, E. E. Clark '94, H. N. Arnold '96, F. C. Chamberlain L. S. B. J. Worman '95, Mac Nichol L. S., all for the outfield and D. W. Welch '94 for short-stop...
...Bowers the 'varsity pitcher: Graves the football player and a member of the Trinity nines of the past three years; O' Neil, the crack first baseman of the Holy Cross team; Farrell, second baseman on the Exeter nine for the past two years; Norton, last year's short stop on the Yale team; D. W. Parsons, an old third baseman on the Colby University team and for two years a member of the New England League; Foster, another old Colby player; Redding, of last year's Syracuse University nine, and others. These men intended to train for the 'varsity team...
...foot-ball for years. Its object is of course to leave no ground for the breaking of the rules in regard to the eligibility of players to positions on the teams of the various universities and colleges. The exclusion of all members of graduate departments will effectually put a stop to the importation of foot-ball material, and the provision in regard to special students will practically stamp out professionalism. The rule was conceived without any idea, either of forcing any member of the league to withdraw from, or of preventing any team from joining the association; its spirit...
...system, however, was prohibited by the Inter-state Commerce Act. The framers of this act showed no conception of the relation of railroad practices. They forbade reductions and then proceeded to forbid also the pooling system, which was the only thing that had shown itself capable of putting a stop to those reductions. They left the cause, and forbade the effect. The truce between railroads was broken, and they were forced again into secret war. The law that declared that all firms shall be treated alike really intensified the inequality. Since reductions are illegal, they must be secret, and thus...
...high tax would stop undesirable immigration: And. Rev. XIV. 260. (Mar. '88): - (a) It would make impossible the sending of; - (1) paupers, - (2) convicts, (3) contract laborers, - (4) shiftless and ignorant persons whom agents of steamship companies induce to come: Yale Rev. (Aug. '92). - (b) The Italians and Slavs can barely raise the passage money; they could not raise the tax: Ford Com. Rep. pt. 2, pp. 112, - (c) Tax would not keep out the desirable immigrants such as, - (1) Germany, - (2) Sweds, - (3) Irish, for they bring enough money to pay the tax; Schmoller's Jahrbucher...