Word: ills
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Form in College Rowing," written by Mr. E. M. Garnett. The subject of the first paper is "The Harvard Stroke." In it the various changes which the Harvard stroke has undergone during the past five years are carefully described. The article explains fully the reason for Harvard's ill success since 1885 and so is very interesting. We quote a part of the article criticizing the '88 stroke and comparing it with that rowed...
...Putnam, '91, is ill with rheumatic fever...
...Professors N. S. Shaler, and Joseph Lovering, and Rev. A. Brooks. Mr. VanDyke condemned college athletics as gladiatorial, and as consisting of a large proportion of contest, with a small proportion of athletics; but Mr. Depew, the next speaker, suggested that this view was largely due to the recent ill-success of Princeton and Harvard. Among those present were Rev. F. G. Peabody, Wendell Goodwin, and many other prominent graduates...
...been at any time a feeling that these meetings were not a success, were not fulfilling the object for which they were intended, it must now have disappeared. The meeting of Tuesday evening was of the greatest use in enabling the students to see the hitherto obnoxious and ill-understood recommendations of the Overseers in a much more satisfactory light...
...Harvard being chiefly responsible for the raising in standards and being today just about a year ahead of the average New England standard of admission to college, is not unnaturally the first college to feel the ill effects of the short-circuiting process between the fitting and professional schools...