Word: fiat
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...REVOLUTION has been effected this term in the game of which, above all other games, Rugbeians are most conservative. A fiat has gone forth that in future all shins, unless the ball is between them, are to be inviolate. Deprived of its most distinctive feature, Rugby foot-ball exists no longer in the school that gave it its title and its birth. Of the expediency of the change we can venture no fixed opinion. It has probably been found necessary to benefit the school at the expense of the game. Of its unpopularity there can be no question; and there...
...FIAT LUX. Let the Alfred Student come, and we will reciprocate. We have with some scruples accepted its article on "Faith." Hope it is n't one of thirty-nine. Hold! When we wrote the above we had not noticed the report of the nefarious orgies of the "Alle-On-Alfire-nean Association," in whose diabolical proceedings an "Orophilian," an "Alleghanian," and an "Alfriedian" took part. Nevertheless we will exchange...