Word: branching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only 57 per cent of the Harvard undergraduates used the library, but now nearly 90 per cent avail themselves of his privileges. This statement from President Elliot's report, shows two things: one, that 10 years ago there must have been a sad lack of at least one branch of culture; the other, that it is now popular at Harvard to be known as a reading man. - Boston Record...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - We hear much of the energy with which Yale men support their college teams in each and every branch of athletics; and contrasts, invidious to Harvard, tho' inexact are often drawn between this college and Yale. I have even heard it said that we take too little interest in our teams, that our athletic enthusiasm is not remarkable, that we are - oh! blackest crime, indifferent...
...collect a small body of men to train, and educate them carefully for any given team, to dismiss the worse one by one, and at last retain only the necessary number of players. The fault in this method is that many come to college without that education in any branch of athletics which for all the teams - except the class crews - is necessary as a guarantee that they are worth educating. How many who are indifferent players when young, as they develop their bodies, develop also a talent in some branch of athletics. Others who have such talent innate have...
...college will have the benefit this winter of two very good lecture courses. The one, the "Dwight Hall Lecture Course" is under the direction of the Yale branch of the Y. M. C. A., and is held in its new building. Two lectures have already been given in this course, one by Rev. William Taylor, D.D., and the other by the Rev. Josiah Strong, D.D., and both were very interesting and instructive. The other course is under the auspices of the Phi Beta Kappa society, the first lecture of which will be given next Wednesday evening by President Dwight...
...Turner, the instructor of gymnastics at Princeton, has offered three prizes for general excellence in that branch of athletics. Mr. Turner is the first instructor to make such a liberal offer and the competition among the students is very encouraging...