Word: fears
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interest in our winter meetings. As all the winners of last year's prizes have left college there is a particularly good opening for beginners, and we trust that a large number of men will take advantage of it. More men perhaps are kept out of sparring for fear of "making fools of themselves" than anything else. This feeling may be increased this year by the tendency to prize-fighting which was seen in the middle-weight sparring last of year, but as all who saw it were thoroughly disgusted we think there is very little chance of a recurrence...
...affairs even though they may happen to belong for the greater part to one class. In point of fact, however, the management of the club's affairs is in the hands of the board of directors, composed of representatives from each class, so there need be no fear that any partiality will be shown to any one class...
While we are in hearty sympathy with the college authorities in their efforts to keep the taint of professionalism from our college athletics, we cannot forbear again calling attention to the ridiculous extreme to which their fear of this professionalism has carried them. It is a well known fact that our base-ball nine made a failure of its last season, although it started out with the brightest prospects, simply from the lack of professional training. Although other colleges had the advantage of a professional player in training their pitchers and their batsmen, we were compelled to play through...
...college library; and there are many more who never take books out. This, no doubt, is owing, in great measure, to the fact that the courses of study pursued during the freshman year require very few books of reference; but it is also due to the fact that the fear of showing their freshness, which influences many of the actions of the freshman-keeps men from going into the library and finding out how to take books out. This seems a trivial reason to prevent men from getting books which they really want to read, and should...
...quoted. It is universally acknowledged the best of its kind, and other colleges have tried time and again to produce publications on exactly the same model. The natural supposition would be that a paper of so high a standard so peculiarly representative of college institutions, would never need to fear lack of support. But the contrary is the case. In spite of the numerous appeals made in its behalf, the Lampoon has not yet been assured sufficient support to warrant its continuance. The editor of a college paper has enough to do without being compelled to pay for the amusement...