Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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From the full experience of Harvard students, an axiom has been established in our university, which is as firmly founded as an axiom of English. It has taken the Shakesperian form, "All's well that ends Wellesley...
...hold positions on the various athletic teams are wont to make their studies secondary to their work in the field, we feel that so sweeping a statement ought to be carefully analyzed. Let us, for Harvard may fairly be said to represent the American University in its most ideal form, look at the question from a Harvard standpoint. Are our athletes conspicuous for a superabundance of bodily strength gained at the expense of a corresponding loss in mental power? Hardly, we think, and we are borne out in this assertion by the prosaic but convincing figures of the yearly rank...
There were two forms of wrestling taught in Greece. The first consisting of a simple throw, and in which no wrestling on the ground was allowed. The second was where the fighting continued on the ground and in which everything was allowed, as strangling, or breaking the joints of one's opponent. In the first kind, three falls meant defeat. This was the only form which was used in the Pentathlon. Boxing was considered a professional sport, and did not enter into the games. They used no gloves, but the hands were bound up in strips of leather, which strengthened...
...Hopkins has been chosen captain of '88's tug-of-war team, and will form a team at once...
Tutoring of late has occasionally taken the form of "Seminars," or parlor lectures. The tutor charges a certain fee for admission to his room at an appointed hour, giving, when the time comes, as full a resume of the course as possible. Forty and fifty dollars an evening are often made in this...