Word: handing
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...entirely exhausted so that men were left the choice of waiting half an hour for a warm water bath, or of bathing at the time in cold water. Now all this would be pardonable if the gymnasium were poorly or insufficiently equipped; but when such excellent facilities are at hand as those we have the case is decidedly different. We are not suffering from poor accommodations, but apparently from simple carelessness...
...short sketch of the history of discipline at Harvard, and showed the sharp contrast between the methods of the past and the present. At the start Harvard made rules generously. The rules were written in Latin, and each student had to make his own copy in a fair hand. Some of the rules of 1743 were read. Students were not allowed to sell each other articles of more than on shilling's value. Most of the punishments were by fines. Five shillings was the penalty for lying. Tutors were requested frequently to visit the students in their chambers after nine...
...have closed round on their respective sides endeavor to push their opponents back, and by kicking the ball, to drive it in the direction of the opposite goal line." It was further stated. "In a scrummage it is not lawful to touch the ball with the hand." The first alteration made was in the latter law, which was made to read, "It is not lawful for a man who has the ball or the man opposed to him to pick out the ball with the hand." This did away with many of the contentions and bickerings which had characterized...
...increased from 848 to 963. The financial account for the year shows a total credit of $1436.24, of which $600 was given to the Harvard Law School for the prize essay and for increasing the instruction in constitutional law, $379.18 spent for necessary purposes, leaving a balance in hand...