Word: stake
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public contest, either individually or as a member of any team, who, either before or after entering the University, shall have engaged for money in any athletic competition, whether for a stake or money prize, or a share of the entrance fees or admission money; or who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood; or who shall at any time have received for taking part in any athletic sport or contest any pecuniary emolument or gain whatever, with the single exception that...
...system of training, is a question which the men themselves can best answer, for they only know just to what excess they have carried it. However this may be, it is unpardonable that any man should jeopardize the chances of victory by his own private conduct. The principle at stake is one, the justice of which every fair minded person will admit. A man owes it to the University he represents to the players who are conscientious in their work, and to himself that he obey, not only to the letter but to the spirit, the regulations which are supposed...
...canoe race under the auspices of the Weld Boat Club was held yesterday afternoon. The course was about three quarters of a mile, starting opposite the boat house, rounding a stake boat and finishing at the starting point...
...canoe race will be started at 3.30. The course will be about three quarters of a mile, starting opposite the boat house rounding a stake boat and finishing at the starting point. Entries will be received up to 3.15. The race will be in the club canoes, two men in each Cups will be given to the winners...
Whether we are likely to win from Yale this year does not enter into the question at all. The principle at stake is the same. We feel that an international boat race of the kind proposed should be distinctly the result of a graduate and undergraduate movement, and not of the offer of the editor of an enterprising newspaper, whose motives are so likely to be interpreted in but one way. Should his plan be adopted we think the college would suffer in public estimation, whether with justice...