Word: stake
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...energy arranged for a joint debate with the Yale Union, and it is announced that the debate this evening will have a considerable influence in determining who shall represent Harvard in the joint debate. Having undertaken the debate with Yale the honor of the college is as much at stake as it is in any of our athletic contests. We have another side of our college life to vindicate and uphold. Such being the case every good speaker in the college should feel a responsibility in this matter, and should strive to have the college represented in the strongest...
...carry on its athletics successfully is to have firm financial basis; and that the only way to get this is to force members to join the Association. Whether or not this is the only way to get sufficient funds remains to be seen; but the one principle at stake-which, in this instance, the H. A. A. has seemed to abandon-is the ultimate broadening of our college athletics. This object the rule in question seems, to us, closely to restrict. The college may possibly think otherwise. If they deem it emphatically good, then let the H. A. A. strictly...
...Rule 2. No one shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public athletic contest, either individually or as a member of any team, who either before or since entering the University shall have engaged for money in any athletic competition, whether for a stake, or a 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 gain or emolument...
...cost; and it seems that the freshmen are likely to fall into the mistake of supposing that yelling ball is playing ball. When they come to upholding the name of the college on other grounds, they must remember that more is at stake than the record of a victory or a defeat, and that it is better for them and the college that they should be beaten playing a fair game than that they should beat by any ungentlemanly method...
Rule 2. No one shall be allowed to represent either university in any athletic contest, either individually, or as a member of any team, who either before or since entering the university shall have engaged for money in any athletic competition, whether for a stake, or a 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 gain or emolument whatever...