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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...article which relates to the college faculty and to "professionalism" is especially worthy of study, inasmuch as there has been so much discussion on the subject at Harvard of late years. In the first place, the writer takes the ground that "it should be the faculty's endeavor, so far as possible, to give to the athletes of their college all the advantages that their opponents possess, and to let them feel that, as a body, it has a lively interest in their successes; and if anything in the method of conducting the sport seems undesirable, let it appeal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Monthly. | 12/8/1887 | See Source »

...regard to one's development as plotted in Dr. Sargent's anthropometric chart, the point of greatest significance is not to see how many of one's measurements come in the centre of the chart, but to first endeavor to straighten one's line wherever it may be, and then carry it forward as near the one-hundred per cent. line as possible. In other words, endeavor to obtain a symmetrical figure; then strive for a fullorbed and harmonious development of all parts of the body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Physical Characteristics of the Athlete. | 11/8/1887 | See Source »

...three minutes crossed the line again. Score (?) No goal, as the ball strikes the post and Wood (?) on the (?) . The sphere is passed to Saxe but he makes a horrible fumble and Belden sails down the field with the ball for Harvard's goal. Saxe, Cumnock and Harding endeavor to overtake him, but are not successful and Williams makes a touchdown and also a goal. Score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball. | 10/20/1887 | See Source »

...blinding of our eyes to the imperfections that surround us, but the exertion of whatever strength we may possess in attempting to improve as well as to serve the customs and institutions which are in vogue here in Cambridge. In this the CRIMSON will be eminently conservative, and will endeavor never to transcend the bounds of propriety which limit expression of opinion at college as well as elsewhere. We shall keep within the limits which custom has assigned to college papers. But when we have once espoused a cause, our duty in devoting all of our energies to its furtherance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/4/1887 | See Source »

...college games, they received a courteous slap in the face, which, we trust, will have a beneficial effect. Such a scheme is all very nice and select, but it savors much more of the tea-pot than the open field. There is something melancholy yet comic in this endeavor to exclude from direct competition such a college as Columbia, for instance, whose agile nine are the present champions. - Life. Ah, indeed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/4/1887 | See Source »

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