Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...said that the first foot ball there was a Danish warrior's head. There is a tradition that the game was played in Derby to celebrate a third century victory over the Romans, and in 1829 the game there is described as played between parishes and as a kind of "cross-country" affair, with more than a thousand players. "Broken shins, broken heads, torn coats, and lost hats are among the minor accidents of this fearful contest." The eyewitness of this game goes on to say, "the crowd is encouraged by respectable persons attached to each party, who take...
...yesterday afternoon. Nineteen men, with G. L. Batchelder '92 as master of hounds, strted out following the trail laid by G. Lowell '92 and D. W. Fenton '95, the hares, who were given seven minutes start of the hounds. The weather was perfect for this kind of sport and a sharp pace was set by the runners...
...possible. They should not be unmindful of the significance which this debate tonight will have in determining who shall stand for Harvard in the joint debate. The competition in this prize debate should, and doubtless will, be sharper than it has ever been at any previous debate of the kind. The college should show its interest in the matter by attending the meeting of the Union and giving the speakers the encouragement of a large audience to speak...
...taken their exercise as they pleased. The new step in the Lawrence Scientific School, however, recognizes the fact that physical training demands more scientific instructors, and that it has grown to be so important that it is worth a man's while to give himself up to teaching that kind of work. And that is the very object of this course; it is to fit men to look at physical culture as a science worth studying, and as an art worth practising. The result cannot but be beneficial to athletics of every kind. In the future they will doubtless...
...Important matters in regard to the boating, the candidates for the crew and the work of the crew were discussed. The committee seem to be pleased with the showing made by the candidates at present though of course it is impossible to judge accurately at this early day what kind of an oarsman a new man will make...