Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been a tacit understanding on all sides that the game of football has been on trial during the season just ended. The influences that threatened for awhile to abolish the game altogether on account of acknowledged evils which had been incident to it, gave way to the honest assurances of its friends that these evils were only incidental, that they were not inseparably connected with the game, and that a fair trial this year would show that football could still be played by college students and gentlemen...
...inexpedient and wrong. - (a) Obstruction policy in Parliament; Times, 8 Oct. 1891. - (b) Opposition to Land Act of 1881; Times, 8 Oct. 1891. - (c) Unscrupulous agents: Nineteenth Century, vol. 27, p.357; Times 8 Oct. 1891. - (d) Resistance to landlords and boycotting: Blackwoods, March, 1890; Times, 8 Oct, 1891. - (e) Tacit encouragement of crime; Times...
...accept what seems to be the tacit understanding, that the course requires six hours of work a week, what of the courses in Analytical Chemistry, I which are described as "chiefly laboratory work," and which take twice six hours? With only a single division into courses and half courses, it is impossible to give more credit for Chemistry 5 than for Chemistry 2; but it is only fair to designate in some way the requirements of the courses, so that a man will not find himself at this time of the year with hard courses growing harder and laboratory work...
...ought to put us to shame. Every feeling but a desire for good sport and fair play ought to be banished from our athletic fields. Since one conference has resulted in a majestic secret, I repeat, I believe more than half the college would favor no league but a tacit agreement...