Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...idea of the proper training dis ances, and who, accordingly, cause much injury to themselves by overstraining. The author states that exceptions may be made in individual cases to the rules set down, but in the majority of cases they should be held to strictly. The idea is to keep the athlete from doing his best until the fifth week of training when he is expected to be in condition for the utmost exertion without injuring himself. The system of the amount of work to be done in each of the first five weeks is carefully laid down...
...committee shall provide the treasurers with suitable books in which to keep their accounts. These books shall be the property of the committee, and shall be returned to them as each treasurer closes his account. After their return they shall be kept in the custody of the committee, and shall always be open to the inspection of the officers of these organizations...
...part of the students, yet their apathy affects the athletic men, it can not help but do so. So long as the students of Harvard, as they have done this year, expect defeat and feel as if they had given up hoping for victory, we shall keep on being beaten. At the base ball games this spring the listless undergraduate spirit has been all too evident. We hope that this letter will be read by every student and that it will teach a needed lesson. Not only in the games to be played this year, but in the boat race...
...order to get two weeks at New London the crew will need four hundred dollars, more than the treasurer now has. The crew is determined to keep out of debt if possible. They have denied themselves everything except what they believed to be absolutely essential to success. The boat club for the first time has not provided any member of the crew during the entire year, with a cap, a sweater, a pair of tights, a blazer, or any single article of clothing. The captain and treasurer believe that there has not been a dollar given to the crew this...
There is still seven hundred dollars of subscriptions which are unpaid. If the gentlemen who subscribed this would keep their promises, the crew would not now be in danger of reaching New London a day or two before the race...