Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...What are officials for in a football game?" was asked by many spectators last Saturday. The slugging was open, wholly undisguised from the beginning to the end of the game. Does anyone doubt that public opinion would sustain an umpire or referee who, at the first manifest instance of this kind, should order the violator of the rules off the field? At one football game last year I saw an Englishman beside himself with righteous wrath at one instance of this kind, and heard him plainly speak out his mind. The matter was so notorious at the recent game that...
...those of the class in whom there is promise of University debating material no word of appeal should be necessary. Every year it is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain Harvard's reputation in debating. During past years superior debating methods, supplementing the efficient and enthusiastic work of the debaters, has aided materially in securing an almost unbroken line of victories over Yale and Princeton. But other colleges are coming to adopt methods which have hitherto been used solely by Harvard, and, as was shown last year, it is becoming harder and harder to win. If the University is to hold...