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...extreme for strong men engaged in manly sport; and for the weak the game was never intended. But the violence of the game offers peculiar opportunities for abuse to those who seek them. There is much dirty play which can be done in defiance of any rules, however stringent. Such play can only be discouraged by absolute intolerance on the part of players and spectators alike. In the intensity of the desire to win and in the fierce excitement of a game, there is often tolerated a great deal that is indirect violation of the spirit of gentlemanly sport. When...
After referring with gratification to the vote of New York by which stringent provisions for civil service reform will be incorporated in the constitution, he told how he had come himself to take up the cause. He emphasized the fact that he had not approached it from the theoretical standpoint of a collegian, but from the practical standpoint of a member of the New York legislature. Several times during his address Mr. Roosevelt insisted earnestly on the practicability of such a reform. "Decent politics are practicable in this country," were his words...
...faculty of Johns Hopkins has passed a stringent rule requiring the captains of athletic teams to hand in the names of the candidates, and any one who is not found to be a bona fide student in good standing will not be permitted to play...
...Russell has been appointed to the Faculty of the Divinity School, and Mr. E. L. Conant to the faculty of the Law School. The Law School publishes a list of degrees the holders of which will, after the year 1895-96, be admitted without examination, and its more stringent regulations in regard to special students. In these schools no other important changes have been made...
...have hoped that under our present rules we could make the distinction between members of the University and the general public; but we now intend to make more stringent regulations...