Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...remember to have happened in Cambridge since the Symphony Orchestra was established. The Mendelssohn Symphony,-the "Scotch" was on the whole very well played; but in the third movement, the Scherzo, there was noticeable a tendency to hurry, and to get a way from the conductor's beat, which marred the light and airy brauty of the thing, by causing a slight lack of clearness now and then...
...Under these circumstances an article from a Yale pen, calling for a higher standard in college sports, is a happy sign of progress. Take these two sentences of Mr. Ripley's, for instance: "The leading principle," he says, "in contests between gentlemen, should be that the best man should beat, and in a gentlemanly way." Again, he says that the howling which was a feature of certain base ball games last year, "indicates a deplorable lowering of the general tone of college sentiment." These are golden words, and from them we gather encouragement for the cause of athletic reform...
...Oxford beat Cambridge at foot ball for the fourth time in succession last month. The record now stands, Oxford six, Cambridge two, drawn games four...
...Exeter Academy foot ball eleven which defeated our 188 freshman team averaged in weight 166 lbs., while the Andover men, who beat them, but succumbed to '88, averaged only...
...most notable exception was in the years immediately proceeding the rebellion. Then the pulse of Harvard beat in time with the pulse of the nation. Books were laid aside for the musket, familiarity of the classics war superseded by the knowledge of military tactics; the robe of the student was replaced by the uniform of the soldier. Academic honors lost their charm when the Union was in peril, and noble literary ambitions were as dust in the balance when the nation called for defenders. There were five hundred and thirty-five Harvard men among the volunteers of the North...