Word: commitement
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...field, after two of Harvard's team were knocked up, and their places taken by substitutes, they were mean enough to say it was "luck," and "they played as good a game as we did." For my part, I could not see that their rushers did any thing but commit a series of brutal assaults upon our men, who are deserving of great credit for the plucky manner in which they withstood the unwarranted attacks...
...gentlemen who have undertaken the actors' parts met at Professor White's house, yesterday evening, for a preliminary reading, in order to get the pronunciation in good form, before beginning to commit their parts. Hereafter they are expected to learn a definite number of lines each day, until they know their parts...
...during the past years have done so much towards the honor of the College. Our Nine, however, are deserving of praise for the steady game which they played throughout. In spite of the fact that the score stood at one time seventeen to nothing, the Nine did not commit the fatal blunder of losing their presence of mind, but worked away till they had obtained the four runs which saved the defeat from being a disgrace. This week the Nine seem to have discovered that hard work at practice is the only means of salvation...
...given. To find fault with giving a vacation after Easter, because Easter is an ecclesiastical institution, and Harvard is an unsectarian college, is almost as absurd as it would be to object to having a vacation at Christmas. Placing a vacation after Easter or at Christmas does not commit the Faculty to the recognition either of Easter or Christmas. These seasons are chosen as times of cheerfulness, when we shall find it pleasantest to be at home with our families...
...Undergraduates who fail in the duties, or commit the offences, pointed out in this chapter, incur fines as follows: For coming, after the exercises are begun, to daily prayers, two cents; for absence from prayers, without sufficient reason, three cents; for absence from church without sufficient reason, offered before the ringing of the second bell, and allowed by the President, or one of the professors or tutors, thirty-three cents...