Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...precarious in this climate, and difficult to indulge in because Fresh pond is so far from the college. Before it is too late I should like to suggest through your columns the advisability of forming an association to introduce tobogganing at Harvard. This sport has lately come into as great favor in the vicinity of Boston as it has always had in Canada. I believe that a large number of men are already equipped with toboggans, and that many more would take an interest in the sport if a slide were built on one of our athletic fields...
...escaped the attention of the Athletic committee. A man who intends to enter for the games of the Athletic association is expected to be examined a day or two before the meeting. If he desires to be examined earlier he finds himself barred out by the great number of men who have signed before him and he has consequently to wait till the last moment. Now in the course of a man's training he is obliged in his trial heats to exert himself almost as much as in the race itself. If therefore a man is in such condition...
...clock and fully 5000 had to be turned away. More persons paid for admission to the two grand stands than could be accommodated with sea sand these had to take their chances with the howling, cheering crowd which surrounded the ropes on all sides. A great many ladies were present, accompanied by their brothers or escorts and they cheered just as loudly as their male companions...
...surely puts us in an attitude undignified and cowardly, gives Princeton an undeserved snub, and secures for us her enmity and absolutely nothing else whatever. We seem to forget that so long as the Yale-Princeton game occurs in New York on Thanksgiving day, it will remain the great event of the year, the one that brings in most money to the athletic associations of the colleges competing, the one the great athletes who compete or look on will look forward to with keenest expectation. Until we win, therefore, and earn a place in that game, our efforts toward...
...should like to call the attention of your readers to the advertisement of the course of lessons on Memory which Dr. Pick is to begin this week. I know enough of the system to feel sure that many individuals will find it of great use. It is based on sound principles and is altogether free from charlatanry...