Word: broken
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...educating young men of limited means. The course of study necessary to obtain a diploma in some of these is so difficult as to be simply impossible to a boy of ordinary intellect; hence, out of freshman classes of seventy, four or five boys worry through, often with broken health and exhausted energy. Now, if the object of the men who endowed these colleges was to send out yearly a few highly educated scholars, this system is the proper one; but if it was to afford a chance to the mass of young men for development and usefulness, this system...
...congratulate the freshmen on their victory last Saturday. We felt conddent that they could defeat Yale, and were glad to see our confidence justified. The long line of Yale's victories has been broken, and we trust that Harvard freshmen will hereafter follow the example of '86. We hope the freshmen will be equally successful in the deciding game of the series...
...college is there so much ingenuity exercised in attaining this enjoyment, and that nowhere is there found so strong a feeling of fellowship. Few in numbers, nearly every man is known, if not personally, at least by reputation, to every other man. Moreover, when this body of students is broken up into a number of fraternities and social clubs it is by no means strange that so strong a friendship should spring up as exists in numerous instances. Nearly half of the students belong to the fraternities, of which we have seven, and, from what knowledge I have of similar...
...plain, unvarnished truth, is a body content without a soul, without a sense of responsibility, for the simple reason that the individual is lost in the multitude. It is impossible to obtain from an aggregation of twenty or thirty men anything like uniformity of action. The whole is broken up into groups or cliques which do not act in concert, and according as one or the other of such cliques may be present on a given occasion, the voting will be decided one way or the other...
THROWING THE HAMMER.Considerable interest was manifested in the result of the throwing the hammer, as Mr. Kip, who has won this event for several years past at Harvard and whose record, 84 feet, is the best Harvard record, had broken the college record of 87 feet 11 inches, in practice. The other entries for this event were L. A. Biddle, '84, J. J. Roberts, '86 and A. L. McRae, S. S. Kip won the event with a throw of 86 ft. 11 in., one foot below the best college record, beating the Harvard record by 2 ft. 11 in McRae...