Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...believe I speak for all the overseers in saying this. We are not going to abandon the study of Greek in Harvard. [Loud applause.] There will be some differences of opinion as to just what place it shall take in the curriculum, but so long as large numbers of students prefer the classical training, do not fear but that the college authorities will stand by them; and more, whatever-differences of opinion there may be as to the requirements for admission to college, we shall stand on this question all Greeks together. Though there may be a Cicoro...
...interfere materially with the more serious duties of the student, or greatly disturb the ordinarily placid routine of undergraduate life; to make them incidents, not epochs, in college history; to limit their preliminary training within reasonable bounds as to expenditure, either of time or money; to totally abandon the employment of professional trainers or assistants; to avoid undue notoriety and its attendant unhealthy excitement; to forswear all gate-money speculation-in short, to conduct these contests strictly in accordance with the true spirit of genuine amateur sport...
...sudden adoption of any restriction by the faculty without fair notice. We would also certainly hope that as a result of this conference more cordial and less distrustful relations may be brought about between the faculty and the students. But this can hardly be unless the former will abandon its present policy of secrecy and inconsistency and will definitely outline its course at least so far as directly concerns the latter. The students of Harvard stand ready to co-operate with the faculty in any just and reasonable reform the latter may desire to make in the matter of athletic...
...political promotion with any human being, and to all letters addressed him upon the subject he had replied that he was a candidate for no political promotion. He knew of no nobler or more attractive work than that of advancing the university's interests. He pledged himself to abandon it for no promotion of any sort, political or otherwise...
...fever than there was ten years ago. Athletics was another important subject of which he desired to speak. Athletics were a blessing to the college, drawing away energies which might otherwise be wasted in idleness or vice, but whether intercollegiate contests were desirable was a question of opinion. If abandoned, Yale could doubtless get along without them. No proposition to abandon them, however, would be entertained on the ground that there was any extraordinary brutality on the part of students. The undergraduates were as magnanimous as any similar body in any other college...