Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shall in all probability have a light crew, but not necessarily a weak or poor one. Harvard, with a regular experienced coach and early accessibility to the water, has indisputable advantages in acquiring the art of rowing and should always be able to turn out crews which shall do honor to the college. Capt. Storrow is of opinion that a light, active crew, if the men are all strong and healthy, can be made as effective as a heavy crew. In this opinion he is supported by the actual tests and measurements of Dr. Sargent. It is found that...
...importance of our athletic interests is very considerable; even a Committee on Athletics would grant this. Aside from the influence that success or defeat has in the outer world-aside even from the honor of the college involved in these intercollegiate contests, the physical welfare of the students is vitally bound up in them. Dumb bells and pulleys are all very well in their way, but they can not- and do not- enter into the life of our athletics. The students, appreciating as they do the importance of the question, are strongly opposed to change, believing, and we think rightly...
...days when he was young, when there was not a man living could throw him in the ring. When these rural sports were of a character in which the parson and squire could take part, they flourished. The tangible honor to be won rarely consisted of more than a belt, but as the exercise became popular the prizes increased in value, and though for a time the wrestlings flourished, doing so upon an unsound basis, a decadence set in, and gradually, though surely, they fell to the position they hold at the present time.- [Land and Water...
...they must not be troubled with despondency. The games which they have played have been well won and have given them ample opportunities to correct some of their faults. We hope the record of victories will remain unbroken and that '88 may add to her foot ball glory the honor of defeating the present Exeter eleven...
...pulpit. At the end of last century and even at the beginning of the present one, it was thought no disgrace to "the cloth" to contest wrestling bouts in the north country. There was no money- that bane of all sports- to compete for. He wrestled for honor alone, and if "t' priest could thraw t' shepherd" more likely were his sermons to find their way to the hearts of his rustic parishioners. One clergyman, when he had got up in years, was wont to boast...