Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...open to him during his vacation a never ending means of enjoyment. Nothing will more refresh an overworked mind and body than a day spent with that zest which only a sportsman knows, after snipe and ducks in the marsh, or among woody haunts of ruffled grouse. It is almost needless to mention the pleasures of wing shooting, to recall the never-to-be-forgotten thrill of excitement when a grouse or bunch of quail rises with its whir, or, if the gunner is new at his work to speak of the mortification which follows a poor shot...
Athletics in the past have been peculiarly a student institution. The Harvard faculty has lately come to doubt whether this is to be true of the future. A question involving the whole future of this institution has been kept from all interference and knowledge almost of the Harvard students. The new regulations at Brown were promptly referred to the students for their advice. At Columbia, we are told by the Spectator, the question of their adoption or rejection rests with the students. At Amherst and Cornell the students have been consulted. This also was true at Princeton. At Dartmouth, Yale...
Another evil in athletics, which is the result of competition, is said to be unequal development produced by training for specialities. In answer to this we need only look at the prominent athletes in the different branches. They are almost without exception healthy, and well developed men. Athletes are beginning to see that the best training for a specialty is the thorough development of the whole body, and not the abnormal development of particular muscles. When this idea has become generally accepted, as it seems probable under Dr. Sargent's teaching that it will, then this objection to specialities...
...Clark graduated at this school in 1832, and in the next year went to Kentucky, more than a week's journey from Boston. In this almost frontier state he spent seven years, very profitably, he said, since they taught him humanity...
...there is any such danger, any college which recognizes it will have to stop four-mile races whether other colleges do or not. If Harvard and Princeton believe that four miles is too long a course, and it can be proved by medical authority, Yale and other colleges will almost certainly have to come to the same conclusion...