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...writer, the rule seems inexpedient and unjust. It was undoubtedly made to prevent any chance of the meetings becoming inconveniently Jong. The '83 committee of arrangement proposed a similar rule, but by motion in the meeting the rule was thrown out. Subsequent events justified the action of the meeting. The secretary eventually elected would have been thrown out at the first had the meeting not amended the rules. Later in the evening the orator finally receiving the majority of votes would have been rejected by such a rule as the '84 committee propose. To prove that freedom of ballot need...
...weight for the ball itself, even if they do not adopt a length-limit for the handle, which latter, however, they ought to do, in order that corrects comparisons may be instituted between the performances of different athletes. It would also be advisable for the committee to adopt a rule prohibiting the use of privately-owned heavy-weight implements at all athletic meetings held under the association laws, and making it compulsory upon the club or association holding games to provide hammer, shot and "fifty-six," and to guarantee the correct measurement and weight of the same before being used...
...present university foot-ball eleven no member has been on the team more than one season. The five year rule won't damage us for sometime to come...
...present university foot-ball eleven, no member has been on the team more than one season. The five-year rule won't damage us for some time to come. [Princetonian...
...could not practice, while Louis K. Hull, a valuable man, entered the law school and refused to go in the eleven. Now comes word that Hyndman, Peters and Richards are almost certain to play, and perhaps one or more of the others. Hyndman has managed to evade the college rule forbidding his presence in New Haven until his term of expulsion is over, by locating in a suburb called Westville, which, while in the limits of the town of New Haven, is not in the city, yet so near that he can daily engage in practice with the Yale eleven...