Word: good
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...motion, and gives a man that pluck and grit under difficulties that must always be of service in after life. The assertion is made that those who are training for some athletic team are "entitled to the preference in the gymnasium and elsewhere" and that those who have only good health in view are "Crowded out and become discouraged." We venture to say that anyone who could make such an assertion as that can never have visited the Hemenway gymnasium on a winter afternoon, or have seen one of the many "scrub matches in baseball and football, which take place...
...lacrosse are reasonably safe, but football is extremely dangerous, while sparring is in many cases an exhibition of brute force, rather than a contest of skill. The main work of a student is to get an education, and athletics should be no more important before graduation than afterwards. No good comes from intercollegiate contests, and better results will follow if the competition is confined to members of this college. The committee recommend the adoption of the following votes...
...Theatricals given by the Conference Francaise, Thursday evening, proved two things-that there is much latent talent in that line here at college, and secondly that the Conference is a thriving enterprising society, with a good deal of that qulaity known in New England as "push;" too often lacking in our college soceties. That interest in such affairs is great, is proved by the size of the audience, which thoroughly appreciated the numberous bons mots of the actors, and which insisted upon frequent repetitions of the last scene in the play. The acting was all that could be desired, being...
...principalship in a Massachusetts academy, with a salary of $800 may be filled by a senior or a graduate with good rank in the classics...
...though it be '91, can show certain other clubs in college the result of careful work. Their selections are also very appropriate. There was an innovation in the way of a concert solo by Mr. Wendell, who played Sullivan's "Lost Chord." It is a long time since a good wind instrument has been heard in college, making a pleasing feature of a programme...