Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...encounter defeat at the outset. How familiar to us have grown such phrases as "freshmen rattled," "wretched game," "decided brace," etc. It is the custom for freshman teams to feel defeat. They need it. But to draw too hopeless a conclusion from defeat is not the means to accomplish a necessary end. It would be strange, indeed, if eighty-nine did not possess sufficient and suitable material to form a good eleven. There are good men in the class, and they need only the proper encouragement to go on the field. With a firm determination to success the freshmen...
...long and constant training. Regularity and precision of stroke are essential conditions of success. Many methods have been adopted to secure these advantages, but none of them have proved particularly precise or accurate. Recently, however, a device has been resorted to among professional oarsmen which bids fair to accomplish the desired end. Photographs of crews in motion have been taken by the instantaneous process, and so clearly brought out to the minutest detail, that fair and accurate criticism of style has been rendered possible. Of course, in the case of the class crews, such trouble is scarcely worth the while...
...into entirely different colors. These are not the words of the address, only the ideas as the writer understood them. Strict specialism during a college course was decried and declared to belong only to the professional school. Slight divergences from the bee line were encouraged, as being likely to accomplish more successfully the purpose of a college education...
...certain amount of time each day to study and come what may, be it sport or exercise, they never fail to devote so much time to their studies, nor swerve in their duty. Thus, as it were, wedging their minds between two rigid walls of time they learn to accomplish more by thus limiting their opportunities of study than many who never cease to "grind" out the modicum of study required by the college regulations. The art of study is truly a great one, and an art that ought to be learned early in life, before, if possible...
...game. Before the game, Capt. Penniman, of the Druids, protested against Woods of Harvard being allowed to play. The reason for the protest was, that Woods had played on the Somerville team, and was therefore disqualified from playing with Harvard. It was generally agreed that the protest would accomplish nothing...