Word: correct
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sound not likely to be misunderstood, an even start may be expected. Thus, little by little the necessary arrangements attendant on the class races are becoming perfected. A year or two ago the shells were started for the first time from boats moored in the stream. This made a correct alignment more sure and easier to accomplish than by the older method. Now, this year will see the referee steaming rapidly about in the nimble "'87," and consequently placed in a position to start the crews without resorting to the confusing steam whistle...
Physical training in its broad sense means correct habits. It means temperance. It means morality. College sports today, as represented by the sentiment of undergraduates, mean manliness and fair play. The qualities of judgment, decision, coolness in the midst of excitement, and self-reliance, are developed. The value of discipline is learned by those who become members of teams, and all learn to care for their health. People who live in college towns will testify that with the increase in athletic sports there has been a decrease in the number of student escapades which disturb the peace and injure...
...have examined the accounts of Mr. F. B. Knapp, who, with Dr. Sargent, had charge of the expenditures during the summer vacation, and have found them correct...
...MASS., March 24.The vault performed by C. H. Atkinson, at the Hemenway Gymnasium, March 22, 1884 was over a bar. The construction of the apparatus was substantially according to the definition of fence vaulting. There can be no question of the entire fairness of the performance, or of the correct measurement of the distance...
...statements it would seem that, not in any respect different from most such cases, both parties, the faculty and the seniors,-are more or less in the wrong. But it is always inadvisable for outsides to attempt to pass any pronounced judgments on such matters, as the means of correct information are always limited. Every college student knows how much his actions are miss-represented and misunderstood by the outside world and, we presume, college faculties experience the same difficulties. Leaving aside the original merits of the Hamilton College case, it would seem to outsiders as if the disagreement...