Word: doubting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...great audience Sunday night can doubt longer-if he has doubted, what good-practical common-sense good-these meetings may do. They are not a piece of Quixotry...
...anyone who has watched intercollegiate athletics among the past few years, it is evident that the defeats which Harvard has suffered at Yale's hands are not to be attributed to Harvard ill luck. There can no longer be any doubt of the fact that Yale is essentially a more athletic college than Harvard. The reason for this is patent. The social conditions at Yale attract athletes; the social conditions at Harvard repel them. Yale's very being is bound up in athletics. She sacrifices everything for athletic victory...
Betting is put in a new light to many of us by Mr. Wendell's article, and without fear of becoming prudish, we can join with him and say that our sports would be conducted more honorably if we could eradicate the betting factor. The "sporting element" here no doubt does our athletics and our moral tone serious evil and it is right that an outcry should be made against it. Men will make wagers until doomsday, it may be urged, but still when we appreciate that the custom is injuring our athletic career we are culpable...
Harvard has awakened. The spirit which has animated, or rather destroyed, our life here has received so many shocks during the past few months that we doubt if it will ever make its appearance again as a potent factor in Harvard life. The system of compensation which has been in vogue here for some time past was as abnormal a system as could well be conceived. How it was possible for it to grow up and flourish in the rank luxuriance it enjoyed perhaps will remain a mystery forever; for it is hard to conceive of any cause which could...
...much needed opportunity for a capital form of exercise. But instead of the Athletic Association taking the matter in hand, would it not be much better for those especially interested to form an association and start a subscription for the purpose. A meeting for this purpose would no doubt be well attended, for the object is certainly one which will appeal to every one in college who likes out-door exercise...