Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which are being divided among the members of those teams. The alumni think that all the financial resources of the various teams taken as a whole, should be exhausted before they are asked to contribute. Then, feeling that they were aiding the whole circle of athletics, they would step forward and make up the deficiencies in the gross amount...
...pole vault are Frothingham, '86, J. W. Dudley, '87, and T. C. Craig, '87. For the bicycle race only one candidate has appeared, Dean, '88, of last year's team. It is hoped, however, that others will come forward when out door work begins...
Bicycle riders are bound to have all the danger that can possibly be attached to their machines. Not long ago somebody invented a steam engine to be placed just above the small wheel and now another genius comes forward with a mainsail attached. When we finally get a full-rigged bicycle, with its steam engine, spinnaker and all the other appliances suggested or invented we shall have a new means of suicide which cannot fail to become popular. - N. Y. Telegram...
There is a need felt by many students which the elective pamphlet does not satisfy. A course is demanded in common English law, not for those students who intend to become lawyers, but for those who are looking forward to business. Such a course, embracing the general features of common business law and the every-day methods of procedure, would meet with approval at large among our students, and would be productive of practical results of value. The subject is no more technical than that of political economy or the study of finance. It is kindred to the subjects...
...with everything in the way of athletic apparatus that human ingenuity has devised, its ball fields and running tracks, it is no wonder that Harvard, drawing from its sixteen hundred students, all of whom are anxious to represent their college in athletic contests, should be able to put forward a base-ball nine that wins every game it plays, a football team that is only beaten by Yale, and a boat crew that leaves even Yale in its wake...