Word: understanded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...understand that both these statements are denied by members of the committee, who assert that the committee was actuated by sincere motives as expressed in Prof. Norton's letter in prohibiting the Yale game, and that no official assurance has been given the nine of permission to employ a professional trainer in the contingency named, although individual members of the committee may be in favor of such action in that case...
...general. We also hope that the knowledge by the faculty of the views of a large proportion of the students on the matter of professionalism as expressed at the conference by the president of the athletic association and others may be of use in bringing about a better mutual understanding on both sides. In our issue of the morning preceding the recent conference we took occasion to criticise some portions of President Eliot's annual report treating of college athletics as vague and non-committal, and indeed those passages taken by themselves still seem to us non-committal and vague...
...bogus summons, purporting to come from the Dean, were sent out to various members of the different classes. Just why any persons of intelligence sufficient to entitle them to a place in the college should wish to indulge in such a practical joke it is really hard to understand. Certainly, as far as the joke was concerned, nothing could be sillier; and the only amusement of the inventor or inventors of this piece of mischief must have sprung from the knowledge that they had put a few men to some trouble...
...understand that one of the boxing teachers is on the lookout for a heavy weight. We hope for the success of the winter meetings that he finds...
...much of this work and would take much trouble off the hands of the Athletic Association. But 'till we get one the Association must do a great deal of tiresome work in getting men to train. As far as we know, though there are several gentlemen in college who understand how to put the shot, none of them have as yet done anything in preparation for this year's events, nor do we know of anyone who has been practicing the pole jump. These events are not easy ones-they need steady application to succeed in them...