Word: attractiveness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...showing which the Harvard men made was on the whole gratifying to their supporters, the several hundred students who shivered on the benches of Jarvis. Of course it is impossible to make any decided criticism of the play after only one game. Still there are some things which attracted attention. The work of the regular battery seemed almost faultless and is an improvement over the performances of last year. Thus early are the good effects of the winter's cage work evident. The little fielding which was required of the men was almost perfect and if continued during the remainder...
...extra meeting of the Athletic Association comes tonight at 7.30. The names of the entries will not be announced until evening. The tug-of-war between the Law School and '85 ought of itself to attract a large crowd...
Notwithsanding the small number of actual contests there is no doubt that these will be warmly contested, as many of the men who are to take part have appeared as contestants in former years. This names alone will be sufficient to attract a large audience and we think that the access of the meeting is assured. The remaining meetings will, we hope, bring our a much larger field of entries...
...second paper of Professor Richards, from which we give several of the more important abstracts, does not seem up to the first in originality of ideas, but is, nevertheless, of sufficient interest to attract notice. He says: "With regard to the evils of the present system of college athletics it must be remembered that the best system will not be free from all evil. That the present system has evils is no valid argument against it, unless it can be shown either that these outweigh the good, or that some other practical system can be devised which shall have...
...course; that elective in the following year would be avoided. If he finds the students are not doing the work assigned to them he is led to require less. Thus in the course of years each elective gains a reputation for hardness or "softness," and this reputation will attract students who will per petuate the same. It is a notorious fact that there are at present electives which no indolent student will choose, and others which few close students will enter. Thus every student is embarrassed in his choice of electives. Disinclination to hard work, ambition for collegiate honors, pecuniary...