Word: actioned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There is much complaint of the action of the managers of the Boston ball grounds on Saturday in charging for admission to the grand stand. It has been the custom to admit students to the stand without extra charge...
...action of the gentleman, at Williams, in refusing the position of valedictorian, because he regarded it as an honor obtained from the marks he had received by a system that he did not approve, has called forth many articles on the method employed of distinguishing the different grades of scholarship attained by men at college. By some, the marking system is upheld, as the only means to prevent idleness and neglect, and as an unfailing incentive to "healthy, honest competition," as one contemporary has it; others trace from it all the prevalent evils that result from overwork and cramming, while...
...said to have been so unfair in the Metropolitan games as to provoke considerable comment, and it is said that, unless he makes some change in his delivery, the college teams will kick. In view of the futile efforts of the league to enforce legislation on this point, the action of the collegians will be watched with interest...
...distribution of these courts is remarkable. They lie at every angle with each other and at all points of the compass. Occupancy of the ground is the whole law, and possession is ill-defined. It is to be hoped that the Tennis Association will revive sufficiently to take some action in regard to the occupancy of courts and the terms of possession. Some equitable rules should be drawn up to govern the distribution of courts, and to bring about some satisfactory solution to the vexed questions now pending of ownership, and of demand for new grounds...
Legislative action is being taken against the practice of student-duelling in Germany and in Zurich, and a law has been passed against the duel in any form whatever. Consequently, one hundred students have pledged to leave the university and go to some institution where time-honored customs are not interfered with by meddling legislators. The way of the peacemaker is hard...