Word: harvarditis
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...that all the small colleges who have never rowed yet, and who will, in all likelihood, not enter a crew at Springfield this year, were voting with Yale with as much regularity as if it had been arranged beforehand. This furnishes a sequel to the nomination of officers. Harvard energetically opposed all these amendments, taking the honorable and magnanimous ground that if the colleges were allowed to take students from their different schools, the larger colleges would have a still greater advantage over the smaller than they now have. A decrease of enthusiasm and competition would result, and the true...
...worthy of note that the colleges opposing this resolution were Harvard, Massachusetts Agricultural College, Williams, and Amherst, three of whom were the leaders at the last regatta...
...Dana, Harvard; H. A. Oakes, Yale; E. M. Hartwell, Amherst; E. P. Alexander, Massachusetts Agricultural; John Gunster, Williams; F. A. Waterhouse, Bowdoin; G. B. Underhill, Trinity; A. D. McClellan, Brown; H. H. Coston, Wesleyan; F. A. Thayer, Dartmouth; G. M. Spear, Columbia; J. B. Edgerly, Cornell; Josh Ward (proposed, but rejected), Williams...
...enough that prices should rise like the mercury before a south-wind whenever a student enters a store, but every unfortunate person who has heard of Harvard must arm himself with a certificate of high moral character, borrow a car-fare, and make a pilgrimage to this Mecca of boundless generosity. Our poor friend Jones is just weak enough to be food for all these hungry visitors. Endowed with that thirst for knowledge so common here, he is always found in his room, and his generous heart compels him to cry "Come in" at every knock on his door. Many...
...Harvard formerly had chess matches with Yale; and if we had these now, there would be an opportunity for some persons to engage in intercollegiate rivalry who have not the muscle and endurance for rowing on the crew, nor the skill and strength requisite for playing on the nine, nor the powers of "grind" which will perhaps be essential in the future to competition for intercollegiate scholarships...