Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...play though hard, was clean throughout, and the officials were strict in enforcing the penalties for holding and off-side play...
...West Point team did not put up as strong a game as was expected, its playing should be a valuable lesson to every football player at Harvard, as an example of what can be accomplished by earnest application, under the most unfavorable circumstances. The strict discipline which is manitained at the military academy makes it impossible for the football players to have more than fifteen minutes each day for practice. An exception is made on Saturday, when they are allowed an hour and twenty minutes for a game, and on one other day in the week when they are given...
This afternoon at two o'clock the main body of the Mott Haven team leaves for New York. Though beaten by Yale, Captain Bingham and his men have deserved very well of the University. The season of training is a long one, and the training itself strict and probably often irksome. Those who have faithfully gone through with it have fairly won a right to the whole-hearted support and encouragement of the students. The team starts today with bright prospects of winning the intercollegiate games on Saturday. The men are all in the best of condition and able...
...question is too often dismissed in this way merely to avoid the personal inconvenience which it is well known would follow upon a really fair decision. The strict application of theory to practice in the college world demands a disregard of one's temporary convenience which to many students would seem little less than brutal. An ideal is such a persistently determined affair that one shrinks from encountering it. When a man knows he is honorable, why expose himself to the unpleasant suggestion that he is not? The hint that his estimate of himself has been too high...
...expected to observe certain general rules regarding sleep and diet. The vacation will offer many temptations to laxity in these respects and the necessity of guarding against them cannot too strongly be urged. Every man owes it to himself, to his team and to the University to be as strict with himself when he is free from restraint as when he is under...