Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Athletic Committee to the need of a spring board at the north end of the walk from Sever to Memorial. The sewers on that side of Broadway are clogged up, and on rainy days for some time it has taken a pretty good "running long" jump to clear the swelling tide. Tuesday the stream was wider than ever, and many poor jumpers failed to clear it. A spring-board on the sidewalk would save the weaker ones the trouble of going around the block...
...bring about this desired interchange of ideas, however, the committee found it no simple matter to decide. The thing ought to be done, but just how the gulf between faculty and students could be bridged over, and with a bridge that would last and offer continuous passage was not clear to the committee. They queried whether each party would not come to the conference as advocates of a side. But the great difficulty was how to get a satisfactory representation of the students. A hearing, those coming who chose, seemed to the committee out of question; the curious, the talkative...
...refuse to accept the resignation, or, if they persist in maintaining their present position, which seems more than probable, they must do the reverse, ask the committee to give way themselves in deference to the express desire of the under-graduates. If the committee cannot see their way clear to yield on this issue and still remain as future advisers to the student body, why the time has certainly come to tender them our hearty thanks for their past services and accept their resignations. This done, the most advisable thing to do is to ask three other gentlemen more...
...indications for lacrosse next year are that the team which have to play better than ever college team has done before. In beginning its winter work in the gymnasium then, our team must start off with the clear understanding that they must improve upon the standard of our play in preceding years. Time was when about all the scientific knowledge of lacrosse that existed among the colleges was held at Harvard. Our twelves had a system of team playing when our rivals had practically none; and, in consequence of this superiority, although we were sometimes deficient in other respects, notably...
...generally understood that the crew is the most deserving of our athletic associations, as it is entirely without means of self-support. Recognizing this fact, the students subscribe liberally. In the case of the other organizations, however, there are generally opportunities for the management to clear away all debts by the end of the year. So it will be seen that our athletic societies, whatever may be the case with those at western colleges, do not need very much assistance from one another, as nearly all of them are in a great degree self-supporting...