Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...office, except when coaching, is to play ball, not to talk. In the next place, there must be an improvement in the batting. The nine cannot hope to make a decent showing against Yale if man after man strikes out. In the third place, the men must use some judgment in running bases. Every game the Freshmen have played has been characterized by the senseless carelessness of their base-running. Recklessness in running bases may look pretty, but it rarely wins games. Five days remain before the Freshmen play Yale. If they spend their time in careful practice, there...
...subject. I mean tennis. It is the most popular, if we may judge by the number who take exercise in the various games It is not brutal, or dangerous; nor does the excitement of the contest tend to cause participants or spectators "to resort to methods which their cooler judgment would condemn." Furthermore, this game gives ample opportunity for developing sound bodies, without drawing too much on the store of energy needed primarily for brain work. Tennis does not tend "to divide the students into two classes, those devoted to athletics, and those taking no interest in physical exercise...
...field and at the bat. Magee and Downer did all the batting for the juniors. For '88, Bailey and Stetson played well in the field, while Allen and Holden excelled at the bat. McLean '90, umpired very acceptably to both nines, being strictly impartial and showing good judgment on close decisions. Eighty-nine plays the freshmen Thursday on Jarvis. The score...
...radical change in the whole athletic system would, we firmly believe, put the axe to the roots of our social system as well. The motto of the Overseers has been "Moderation," but what could be more extreme than this scheme? We can only trust to the liberality and sound judgment of the members of our faculty to prevent its being put into force. If it is put into force, however, the students will have something to say on the subject...
...Probate Court having jurisdiction of my will, shall amount to $250,000, I give to the president and fellows of Harvard College the sum of $25,000, the same to be kept as a separate fund, and the income thereof to be used in such manner as in the judgment of the president and fellows will be most advantageous for the purposes of the college in any of its departments, and should such inventory amount to $300,000, then I give said president and fellows an additional sum of $25,000, making...