Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...simple form of this cheer is given both here and at Yale. Other colleges have copied and varied it. The question as to how and when it originated seems interesting...
Princeton and Harvard will withdraw from the Intercollegiate Base-ball Association at the convention which is to be held in Springfield on Friday, and on Saturday there will be a meeting of the delegates of Princeton, Columbia and Harvard in Boston to form a new association. We are informed upon the best authority that Yale will also send delegates and enter the new league. The leading base-ball men of Yale have been from the first strongly in favor of the triple league, and their action in the matter has been perfectly honest and straightforward, but they were hampered...
...foot-ball, to be sure. The rules of the game are perfectly definite and are never disputed, umpires are provided for, and there is no opportunity for quarrelling about this nor as to where a match is to be played. Then, why should Harvard ask Princeton and Yale to form a separate league? The answer is ready enough: To boom college base-ball. How could the annual Yale-Princeton foot-ball game have become the paramount athletic event, that it has, if it were simply a game of a long series and played by two colleges of a large foot...
None of the accessory causes mentioned in the second lecture are as important in the development of art from the early archaic conventionalities as the influence of athletic games. The canons of form they produced have fashioned the feeling for form and proportion ever since. The reason of its widespread influence is that Greek art was at the same realistic and identical. Before art can gain universal validity it must pass through nature and rise higher than the reality from which it is conceived, and this is what happened in Greece. The influence of the athletic games can hardly...
...usual. The last-named article is followed by a poem to Thomas Stevens. "A Night with the Scotch Herring Fishers" follows, and the rest of the number is made up of short anecdotes, interspersed with one or two poems, of which the "Toboggan" is the best. The last article, "Form in Rowing," though very short, is well worth reading, and may suggest something which would be of benefit to the crews. The number closes with the "Outing Record" and the editorials...