Word: extent
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...interest in base-ball and foot-ball is not just, for the number of students is large enough for all the sports, and success in one sport ought not to prevent success in another. I lay it to the deplorable spirit of laziness which prevails here to an alarming extent. Men prefer to lounge about with cigarettes in their months, chattering idle nonsense, rather than to devote their spare time to invigorating exercise. As to our training it is merely farcical; there were men on the University Crew last year who scarcely made any professional training, and who indulged...
...Commencement are of course rejoiced to be here and to meet their classmates and friends, and are thus put in such a good-natured mood that they are willing to endure almost any familiarity that undergraduates may impose upon them. These familiarities are often carried to an almost unbearable extent, and must be very annoying to graduates. Last year several rooms which were reserved for graduates were entered by students, and the "preparations" made way with without ceremony. Actions of this sort do not become us at the present high state of Harvard gentlemanliness, and this year we hope they...
...their colleges. The races just ended lasted a week, and Brazenose came out at the "head of the river," having bumped University on the first or second night. Of the twenty-one boats only six held their positions without change from first to last. Something of the extent to which rowing is indulged in at Oxford can be realized by reading the account in the Undergraduates' Journal of the "Procession of Boats" which passed and saluted the head boat when the races were over. The twenty-one racing-boats were followed on this occasion by twenty-two "Torpid Boats," making...
...reputation of our foot-ball eleven has grown to such an extent in the past two years that on Monday they will be called upon to face adversaries whose very coming is an honor to us. The Canadian "team" will be much stronger than the one we were fortunate enough to defeat last fall, and we cannot but look upon our chance for victory now as extremely doubtful. Whatever may be the result of the game, we have an opportunity of repaying, to some extent, the hospitality we have received in our visits to Montreal, and which has often been...
...shooting, but a few months ago all the rage, gives way now to a mania for knickerbockers; these in their turn will fall an easy prey to the first rival for the popular favor. There is yet hope that the interest in boating will show itself to a great extent this spring. If it does it will be, unquestionably, a good thing for the College...