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...beginning of systematic coaching and organized practice; training table was established; and the game itself was subject to rigid faculty rulings. Games at first were not allowed in Cambridge until after 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and in 1885, football was abolished in Harvard and the team withdrew from the Intercollegiate Association. The ban was lifted the following winter. In the fall of 1890, Harvard broke a jinx of long standing to defeat a great Yale team in the first victory over the Elis since...
...Cabinet clustered round resigned President Alcala Zamora, arguing, pleading, coaxing him to reconsider. Alcala Zamora refused to budge so long as the insult to his honor stood. For 63 minutes Spain was without a President. Finally Insultor Jiminez was persuaded to resign his committee chairmanship. Mollified, Senor Alcala Zamora withdrew his Presidential resignation, gingerly sat down on the Government bench again...
...once Shirley Wheeler Smith, vice president of the University, took action. It had been customary for the University to pay $3.600 for 917 faculty subscriptions. These Vice President Smith withdrew. President Alexander Grant Ruthven called the newspaper "tasteless and objectionable." Retorted Managing Editor Tobin: "The charge of sensationalism ... we deny. . . . The Daily will not juggle news stories. It is our intention to stand by that statement...
Japan, having promised the League of Nations to withdraw from Manchuria (China's northern granary), withdrew a few more soldiers last week, but irate Chinese were not appeased...
...more than a politician since he must remain in accord with the state board that forced Dr. C. C. Little to resign. It is therefore easy to see how these outspoken and iconoclastic comments might have disturbed his dignity. But he found the right method of combat. He merely withdrew the 900 subscriptions to the daily which the University purchases for its faculty members...