Word: displays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...athletic contests afford an excellent chance for the specialist to display his abilities, and only specialists enter them. In their case the entire energy of the system has been concentrated on the development of special powers, and every thing else is set aside as useless. This is the great objection to athletic exercises as they are at present conducted. Symmetry of development is never thought of, nor is it ever acquired by exclusive reliance upon any of our popular sports. Indeed, we would venture to select from any group of recognized athletes the oarsmen, the ball-players and the gymnasts...
...professors as to the effect of athletics on men's mental training, and invariably he has been told that it is highly beneficial. With the exception of a few days before the one or two great contests, they say that during the whole period of training the athletic men display wonderful quickness in apprehension, and work harder than the majority of their fellows who have nothing but their studies to take their time. Moreover, it gives vent, or rather direction, to that superabundance of animal spirits for which college students are noted, and which, in days before athletics became...
Table 31 at Memorial celebrated their last dinner of the term by a farewell feast last evening. The table was elaborately decorated,-likewise the waiter. The cuisine was taxed to its utmost, and the result was highly satisfactory, there being a display of edibles which caused the mouths of many less favored boarders to water. Last of all the fatted pig, roasted entire, was brought on and served to the banqueters...
...hope, itself, since the News recovered from those weekly gasps after the (to Yale) Unattainable, which appeared in its supplement last year and so like the fox who was minus a tail, it deems it its only policy to deride all those who do aspire to artistic display, and chatter that these are but blemishes from which may the gods ever spare its pure pages. Oh, crafty antediluvians of Yale! - [Athenaeum...
...reading room at Harvard should be under the management of the Union. A reading room is certainly an institution of enough importance to deserve an organization of its own and the care of a separate management. It would be superfluous to repeat the well-known arguments and to display the advantages of a university reading room. Every one who has known the convenience of such an institution can testify to them, and all patrons of the former reading room have now been able to appreciate the loss caused by the abandonment of that enterprise. The establishment of an adequate...