Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would lead him to side with the opposing team. When objection was made to his proposal, he immediately called his men off the field and refused to play. It would seem as though a man who has passed four years at college would be sensible enough to control his temper and not give way to such an exhibition of childish behavior. By such actions, one might be led to believe that class games were not intended merely as a means of furnishing exercise and recreation to the players and pleasure to the spectators, but that consequences more momentous than inter...
...decided always on the merits of the game, and the result put beyond dispute. The umpire scheme has proved a wonderful success. The new official has been able to protect the game against foul plays through his power to enforce the penalties the rules prescribe. All the displays of temper in this year's three great matches are to be counted on the thumbs, and were summary punished and atoned...
...umpire-referee system has supplied an executive for the enforcement of the rules and the rights of every player are reasonably assured. It is by this time an axiom with players that the manifestation of temper is a practical acknowledgment of the superiority of opponents...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I am very sorry that your "Undergraduate" correspondent of yesterday should have taken it upon himself to vindicate the dignity of the 'Varsity eleven, for every true champion knows how to keep his temper...
...secundum artem. In fact, the novel is sterling throughout. It is good in plot and workmanship, and in the portrayal and conception of character; it is natural and lifelike, and it is interesting. It is all this not now and then merely, but continually, and with an even, level temper which looks as if the writer had kept carefully within the limits of what was positively attainable. One gets an idea, that is to say, that the next novel one may have the good fortune to receive from the same hand will be even better than this...