Word: gaines
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...money prize, or a share of the entrance fees, or admission money, or who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood; or who shall at any time have received for taking part in any athletic sport or contest any pecuniary gain or emolument whatever, direct or indirect, with the single exception that he may have received from the college organization or from any permanent organization of which he was at the time a member the amount by which the expenses necessarily incurred by him in representing his organization in athletic contests...
...Yale and to the strong desire of Harvard graduates resident in New York, as expressed by two of the New York members of the Board of Overseers, the Athletic Committee, believing that, if certain steps could be taken by the two universities in the direction of purifying athletics, the gain thereby secured would more than offset the disadvantages of making a single departure from the principle of college games on college grounds, decided to make the desired exception in favor of the Thanksgiving football game for three years, provided the two universities would agree upon the following points...
...Blaikie's boats built last year there was a similar cross bracing tried, but it was made of steel strips laid across the seat bracers from one outrigger to the other. Since it is not so much tenacity that is needed but firmness, Mr. Davy thinks he will gain in lightness and lose nothing in utility by using wood instead of steel. The idea of this cross-bracing is simply this: a shell being made so extremely light it must depend mainly for its strength on the even balance of the strains to which it is subjected. The problem...
...association to the effect that third prizes will be given and will count in points for the cup is a very important one. All the colleges will probably send more men than usual to compete, for the larger number they enter, the more chance each college will have to gain points. Harvard will not be behind the other colleges in furnishing men, and it now looks as it her representation would be very considerably larger than last year. Princeton has some very good men this year and will probably get two first prizes; Columbia, also, will be in the front...
...chief gain in shortening the course would appear to lie in lowering the age of graduates from the professional schools. But could not this be accomplished in other ways? The true fault lies, not in our academic department, but in the preparatory and lower schools. There is no reason why the American schools, should not, like the European schools, educate their pupils in sixteen or seventeen years instead of nineteen. It seems quite possible that Harvard might gain a year at least by exerting her influence upon the larger preparatory schools, some of which already offer a shorter course than...