Word: weight
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this kind, members should bear in mind that here, as in other cases, concessions must be made by all, and that members ought to come expecting to yield certain points of rules and decorum, which in another place might be insisted on. However, personal objections should have small weight in these discussions, as it is probable that, through the courtesy of the Telegraph Company, games could be played by two opposite factions without their speaking to or even seeing each other...
This is the view taken by many who have the best interests of the University at heart. It will not do to sneer and call them over-nice. The question should be treated squarely, with a determination to give due weight to whatever can be said against our present practice. If the colleges with whom match games are played, such as Yale and Princeton, could be induced to give up professional playing, we could give up this practice, and still play them on an even footing. We should then lose nothing, and something might be gained in the direction...
Boat by John Blaikie, Cambridge, Mass.; length, 49 ft. 6 in.; width, 21 in.; weight...
...Cook, Lafayette City, Pa.; class '76; age, 25; weight, 155 lbs.; height, 5 ft. 8 in. Stroke and captain...
Average age of crew, 21 1/6 years; weight of crew...