Word: unwritten
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...crews of the two great eastern colleges acknowledging the superiority of our eight Yale's refusal to row is, however, one of the most unsportsmanlike acts ever known in the world of intercollegiate athletics Yale claims the championship of American colleges in boating. By all laws, written and unwritten, the champion of any branch of athletics is always bound to accept any challenges to that title, and a failure to do so entails loss of championship honors...
...unreasoning method of utter silence impressed on every man in the university boat. Harvard is not afraid to do her work openly and is not afraid of giving us points, whether in her favor or ours. She tries to win and frequently accomplishes that end without a code of unwritten law on the concealment of interesting and valuable information. A week's notice before the race is the most the over sanguine would ask or expect, and in common justice they ought to have that this year." - Yale Courant...
...suspension." What the Conference Committee has done is this. Its members have recommended that the regulation regarding cribbing in the published rules, which prescribes suspension or other penalty judged proper by the faculty for cribbing, be stricken out, and that hereafter the penalty of separation from college be unwritten, but firmly understood. That is, cribbing would be taken from college offences, and placed where it belongs, beside stealing and such other offences, as require no statute to condemn them. Perhaps this mistake made by the Acta can be excused as natural, but the statement that the Conference was influenced...
...report of the treasurer of the 'Varsity Boat Club shows an extraordinary deficit in the subscriptions from the freshmen. It has been an unwritten custom amounting almost to a law, that the members of the freshman class shall contribute, as a class, more than their share toward the support of the various university teams. This custom has arisen from a variety of reasons. The reason which at once accurs to all is, that the freshmen are not as yet members of any society, and are therefore saved all society expenses. It is answered that they have their own teams...
...gratifying to learn that the students are not alone in their perplexity, for the board of overseers has appointed a committee to find out what its legitimate powers are. If this inquiry should lead to the adoption of a written constitution, which would serve as a substitute for the unwritten usages and theories, the system of government of the university would be greatly simplified, and there would be no danger of such controversies which have shaken other institutions to the very foundations...