Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...brotherhood has not promoted the interests of its members, since (a) its action has tended to decrease rather than increase the net reward of their labor: Report Mass. R. R. Commission for 1887 on B. and M. strike; daily papers on C., B. and Q. strike (March-April, 1888), especially Boston Herald, March 18, 1888; (b) its educational effect is nil; (c) it incites to violence: Report of Sec. of State of Penn., on the riot of 1877; Boston Globe for March 30, 31; Post, April 3; Herald, April...
...been deemed advisable to add to the list of correspondents of the CRIMSON a representative of the Cricket Club's interests, in order to ensure fuller information about the doings of the cricket eleven than has heretofore been customary. This action has been dictated by the importance which this branch of athletics has recently assumed in the college. It has ceased to be merely a local organization in distinction to the other teams which form parts of inter-collegiate associations, and a decided innovation in this respect will occur when the cricket eleven meets the University of Pennsylvania on Holmes...
...training for the Mott Haven team were greatly annoyed yesterday afternoon by the action of some persons crossing the track on Holmes Field on the way to the base-ball ground. A steady stream of people kept pouring over the track when the various races were in progress, and many obliging individuals stolidly insisted on passing over directly in front of the runners, without changing their slow pace or seeming in any way affected by what was going on. During the bicycle race especially many individuals appeared utterly regardless of the feelings of the riders, and Mr. Lathrop was often...
...treatment of the subject. The writer attributes the success of certain men in athletics to the fact that there is inborn in them a certain impulse which tells them the right thing at the right time. It is a peculiarity, he thinks, of the nervous organization. Training perfects the action of this impulse. Mr. Dudley further attempts to prove that the mental training of the athlete is peculiarly fitted for training the student for the business of life, but we think that he is attributing to it something which it has no claim to except in common with every other...
Owing to an unusual press of business at the last meeting, the faculty were unable to take any action in regard to the petition of the New York alumni. The fact also that the Board of Overseers had not yet published their report on athletics made the Faculty desirous that the petition should not be considered until the opinion of the Overseers had been ascertained...