Word: interdict
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...team must meet the Yale eleven at New York on Thanksgiving or the game will be forfeited to Yale. The Yale management has taken this stand with the full knowledge that the Harvard team will be unable to play at the time and place scheduled on account of the interdict of the Athletic Committee; and either vainly hopes (which is not likely) that this interdict will be withdrawn, or else boldly declares the intention of the Yale eleven to struggle for the championship by whatever means it may. honorable or otherwise...
...extravagance and of vicious habits. Their debasing effect on those who aspire to them as a mark of distinction is, I apprehend, not realized by the faculty, though Yale offers such a warning example of the same corruption. How far it is well or possible for the authorities to interdict such associations and how far to check them by sumptuary regulations I cannot say. Every parent, however, can forbid his son to join them, and may be sure that he will save not only the fees but contingent expenses to an indefinite amount...
...game, and has done away with many, if not all, of its objectionable features. Under the new order of things we fail to see how the authorities can find grounds for continuing their prohibition of the sport. We look forward with confidence to a removal of the interdict which has lain upon the game since last fall. The alterations in the code have, apparently, done everything that can be done to reduce rough and ungentlemanly play to a minimum. That the college may become acquainted with the exact nature of the change, we purpose to print in full...
...gentlemen's teams of Canada. Nothing objectionable has ever been found about the games played with clubs from the Dominion, and there is no reason to suppose there will be. This suggestion is offered as a reason why foot ball should not be allowed to languish while the present interdict of the faculty remains in force...
...once a day? It has been claimed by the students that they can manage athletics without the interference of the faculty. Here is a splendid opportunity to prove it. If some action is not immediately taken by the students, we may, at any moment, be put under another interdict by the faculty, in which the majority of students would probably concur...