Word: doors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Clipper draws the following moral from the Yale-Princeton game : "The contest with its kicking feature gave ample evidence of the fact that the door for improvement in the inter-collegiate code is wide open for a decided advance towards the English Foot-ball Association's rules, with the view of encouraging kicking more and contracting the field for rushing with ball in hand. The kicking in this match gave a new interest to the game, which the crowd in general fully appreciated...
...schools of the country shall be made to play games. The physical condition of the pupils is not what German opinion would have it. While the boys are proficient in their studies, they are weak, listless and unenterprising. The remedy is to be sought by official direction in out-door games requiring skill and agility. The words of Dr. Crosby would have had more weight had they been less sweeping. He spoke like an extremist...
...Chair," was suspended in the centre of the hall by a string stretching between the two side galleries, and proved the source of much disorder and amusement. Theatrical and circus bills were displayed from the front of the north gallery and on the string alongside the chair. Before the doors were opened a crowd of students clustered about them, clamoring for admission, and pelting with peas the janitors and others inside whenever they ventured to look out. Prof. Butcher, the new Greek professor, was received with a loud cheer on arriving, a lane toward the doorway being opened...
...easily and smoothly accomplished, there is no whisper of disapproval or even satire in England. Harvard is wealthy, and could have well afforded to follow the dignified and liberal example of the English universities. Instead of that she has only permitted women students to halt at her back door, allowing her professors to assume burdens which she shirks herself. Women have as yet nothing to thank her for, though they have need to be grateful to those professors who "repeat to the women the instruction given to the students of the college in the different departments...
...some time public opinion in Germany has been much exercised about the physical condition of the boys; they were good scholars, but listless; inactive, unenterprising, often appallingly short-sighted. A remedy is to be sought not only in gymnastics but in cricket and foot-ball and other out-door games requiring skill and agility. It is a wise ruling...