Word: isthmian
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Sever 11, April 22, at 7.30 p. m. Mr. John C. Soley. Subject, The Isthmian Canal...
Sever 11, April 22, at 7.30 p. m. Mr. John C. Soley. Subject, The Isthmian Canal...
Monday, April 22, 7.30 p. m. Mr. John C. Soley. Subject, The Isthmian Canal...
...well as for track athletics, while about two miles from the school is Long Pond, which furnishes a good stretch of water for the crews. Cricket might be called the school game, and every effort is made by the masters to encourage it. Each of the two cricket clubs, "Isthmian" and "Old Hundred," have four elevens, and the school team is picked from these. Base-ball has been forbidden as it was found to detract from the interest in cricket...
...Olympian, Pythian, Isthmian, and Nemean models to be used for our colleges? Are Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia to gain glory by the strength of their students' muscles, and virtue by betting and drinking? Is the athletic contest before a miscellaneous crowd the best way to develop mental culture and moral health? Is it not even a very poor method of ministering to bodily soundness? Do athletes live long? Let medical men answer. I am ashamed to argue such a question. The whole business is demoralizing and directly inimical to the objects of a collegiate institution. Roughness, vulgarity...