Word: restrictions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like many another university, big, heterogeneous Harvard has reached a point at which she feels obliged to pick, choose and restrict her matriculants in kind and number. Last fortnight candidates for entrance next autumn received notice that the classes of 1930 to 1934 inclusive would be limited to 1,000, including transfer students and "repeaters." This meant a cut of 150 or so below this year's freshman class, definitely a cut but hardly immoderate. The hue and cry that arose was over the news that the committee reserved discretionary powers in admitting candidates without examinations...
...athletics, such petty jealousy and autocratic behavior are utterly foreign to the amateur spirit which they profess to represent. For since a man who engages in sport purely for recreation is under obligations to no one it is difficult to understand why any organization should feel called upon to restrict his activities on the cindor path. Yet, by raising the cry of keeping amateur sport uncontaminated this is precisely what the A. A. U., the Western Conference, and similar federations have presumed to do. That actual professionalism flourishes unrebuked even under the most virtuous of these organizations, however...
...forward pass rule was adopted merely to restrict the indiscriminate use of the pass. According to the new ruling, a team shall be penalized five yards for failure to complete a second or third pass in any series of four downs before a first down is made. In other words, no penalty shall be attached to an incomplete pass, provided that it is the first attempt before a first down is made. But if the team in possession of the ball is guilty of a second incompleted pass, it shall be penalized five yards. Another penalty of the same number...
...Because France is afraid that England and the U. S. would try to restrict the conference to considering only land armaments, forcing France to reduce hers, and then hold another naval conference at Washington, where they could apportion the fleets of the world to suit themselves...
...attitude of the Committee was that a graduate should be appointed coach only if he was better than anyone else that could be secured. If we can find a coach who is better than any graduate, we would take him. The report says that the Committee would 'like' to restrict all coaches to graduates, but should the Committee be able to find a non-graduate who was eminently suited to the job, it would have to forego its liking and secure the better...