Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Physical Injury. - (a) Experience not statistics show this. - (b) Studies in college or work outside and athletics, carried on together result in a break down. - (c) Short periods of training do not affect general character...
...Holyoke street. From this it is almost certain that any petition for five new tables this year does not mean an entering wedge to secure a still further extension of the hotel system. The question actually comes down to one of whether it is worth while to break up five or six club tables in order to accommodate from fifty to eighty...
...time; and as Yale still refused to held the contest as early as May 14, Harvard was obliged to accept the date of Friday May 20 or else abandon altogether the chance of holding the games this year. It was a choice between leaving Cambridge during the week, and breaking seriously into the important period of college work, or permitting a blow to fall on athletics which the graduates of the two colleges had arranged between Harvard and Yale with so much care and with such sanguine expectations. Rather than allow these athletics such a set back, Harvard has chosen...
...either beginning or end. The Board believes that at Christmas every student whose home is far from Cambridge should be allowed to leave Cambridge before the recess begins - provided he receives formal permission from the office; but it is unwilling that the Spring Recess should become a serious break in college work...
...represents as best we know, the spirit of the class in regard to the matter. The point which needs most to be emphasized is the demoralizing example that has been set to the under classes. It is right and proper that, when men so far forget themselves as to break training publicly, the college or class, as the case may be, should assert its rights and demand that its representatives respect those laws which govern training. We regret deeply that any such action is called for, but as long as there is a high standard of honor to be kept...