Word: ill
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cable despatch from England says that one of the men of the Cambridge crew is hopelessly ill, and as it is too late to properly train a substitute, Oxford is certain to win the university boat race...
Every autumn hears a wail go up over the degeneration of Harvard sports. Last year, when we returned from the summer vacation, humiliated by defeat, and almost in despair at our ill success, we vowed unutterable vows in our determination for a reform. We all know the result. We can even now only look forward with fear and trembling for the further results. But it is useless to sit still and bemoan the past, if we have in our hands the means of regeneration. It is very evident that the material of our athletic teams must be improved. The best...
President Seelye of Amherst College is seriously ill with facial erysipelas...
Judge William Crowninshield Endicott, secretary of war, graduated from Harvard in 1847, studied at the Harvard law school, and was admitted to the bar about 1850. He remained on the bench until 1882, when he resigned on account of ill health, He is a member of the board of overseers of Harvard college...
...long-lived and respectable, like cricket, tennis, fencing, shooting at a mark, rowing, sailing, hunting, jumping, and racing on foot, horseback, or bicycle, involve any bodily collision between contestants. Boxing and wrestling, which do require such personal collision, are very apt to degenerate as foot-ball has done. An ill effect of some of the inter-collegiate contests is their tendency to restrict the number of men in college who practice the competitive sports. The keenness of the competition creates a high standard of excellence, and persons who know that they cannot reach that standard cease to play. The athletic...