Word: broken
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Then follows an account of the records broken during the past year. Mr. Coolidge closes his report with the following remarks in regard to betting. "Athletics at Harvard are now partially under the ban of the faculty and everything must be done to put them on a sound footing. Undoubtedly the strongest feeling against athletics is caused by the prevalence of betting and I should therefore urge that the association pass a vote, providing that those who accept offices in the association shall have no pecuniary interest in any contest...
...very pleasant talk with them. Among the rest we noticed the familiar face of Mr. Reckhart, the veteran of the crew, and who, with his hundred and ninety 1bs. vastly overtops any of the rest of the crew. On Sunday the monotony of the quarters was broken by a visit to Mr. Hammond, on his hospitable invitation. thanks to Mr. Hammond and Dr. Borland, life at the quarters has been thus pleasantly varied on Sundays for the last two or three years. What everyone is waiting for now is to see the Yale crew. It is suspected that they...
...Benson, former coach of the Cambridge crew of England, coached the University crew last Friday. As the launch was again broken down he was carried alongside in the junior shell by a crew composed of the University and Freshman substitutes, of a member of the '79 crew, and several...
Such cliques must become exclusive, and in consequence great jealousy springs up among classmates and there is a broken union where there might be strength. Educationally, a small class is better than a large one, as it puts the men under the personal supervision of the instructors, and through their contact with them makes them much better morally and mentally. Much of Yale's success in athletics may be attributed to the good class feeling that existed and does still exist. The whole-soulness with which every class at Yale enters upon its duties is refreshing; but even this advantage...
...alive today as when uttered many hundred years ago, and that all the time and trouble spent over the elements of Greek and Latin may not be thrown aside as waste. The plea that this election will make a man's course complex and that he will get a broken knowledge of many subjects is some what strained. True, a little training in any subject is a dangerous thing, but when the modern languages and English studies follow after a solid foundation of the very learning on which the above studies are built, then putting mathematics aside...