Word: dis
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been published. The object of the author was to introduce some systematic way of training for those who are without a regular trainer, since as the article says there are so many enthusiastic athletes who, without the services of a trainer, have no correct idea of the proper training dis ances, and who, accordingly, cause much injury to themselves by overstraining. The author states that exceptions may be made in individual cases to the rules set down, but in the majority of cases they should be held to strictly. The idea is to keep the athlete from doing his best...
...that the nine will receive inadequate support from lack of men to go to New Haven to see the game next Saturday. The men in Ninety-two have generally shown themselves eager to support the interests of their class in every way, and it would be little less than dis race, if so few freshmen accompanied the team as to cause complaint from the nine itself...
...going to "get even" with the world at large and his instructors in particular - presumably for inappreciation of his own efforts in the past - by vigorous "sitting on" the work of some known or unknown classmate. Perhaps this large amount of ill nature, and what might be called literary dis-curtesy, has given rise to doubts in our instructors' minds as to the efficacy of the system...
...Harvard Club of New York gave its 18th annual dinner Thursday night at Delmonico's. Among those present were C. C. Beaman, who presided, Brayton Ives, John O. Sargent. Prof. George M. Lane, Charles R. Codman, of Boston, Chauncey M. Depew, Prof. N. S. Shaler, Dis.-Atty. Olney, Amos N. Fiske, Dr. Francis M. Weld, and U. S. Grant, Jr. In his opening address Mr. Beaman stated that the club started in 1865 with 65 members...
...fact that "students pass from any school to the university without examinations." At some of those named above, examiners-dis-tinguished fellows of the colleges-go down annually from Oxford and Cambridge to the schools, and examine, chiefly by papers,-as the Harvard examiners now do at Chicago, Philadelphia, and other centres-in English classics, mathematics, natural sciences and modern languages-and those who pass that examination with credit are awarded scholarships as exhibitions at certain colleges...