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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doings of men in athletic circles, not only in New York and throughout the country, but at the colleges. are too often slighted in the ordinary sporting papers to accommodate the professional and so-called 'sporting' element, to whom they look for support. We not only feel, but know, that there is a field for a fair and impartial exponent of amateur athletic sports of every description. We propose to supply this want." Its scope includes all branches of amateur athletics, while college athletics are fully represented by special correspondence...
...students. Harvard did not want to see her students go out into the world undecided what to do. She did not want to make their four years at college only four years of boyish study. What she did want was to turn out real men-men who would know where to go and what to do, whether they had studied a profession or not. Harvard was more of an American, more of a democratic college than any other in the country. The students who carried off the honors and reflected the greatest credit on the college were not the docile...
These form what we actually know of his life. Where he was born and in what condition of life he was reared, we do not know and we can only conjecture. But, though he was but a year in America, we find that he received the epithets of "godly gentleman" and "lover of learning," and he seems indeed to have deserved them. His estate shows that he had a competency in England, his library that he was a scholar and a man of some culture; yet for either moral or religious principles, he left everything that could have been dear...
...Balch removed and a competent man put in his place - a man who will give us food that we can eat. The repeated assertions of the directors, that they have full confidence in Mr. Balch, does not inspire the other boarders with confidence. The directors say that they know of no grounds on which to base Mr. Balch's dismissal. Is it necessary to have proofs in black and white that Mr. Balch does not manage the hall in the interests of the students? Is it not sufficient grounds for dismissal that he does not give satisfaction - nay, that...
...much practised, and, although there were no parallel bars, they had an apparatus corresponding to our horizontal bar and also flying rings. However, the Greeks did not strive to excel in these gymnastic tricks as much as in boxing, wrestling and running. The boxing of the ancients, as we know from Virgil, was of a very cruel nature, the principal idea being not to kill a man, for that was prohibited by law, but to come as near to that as possible. They usually wore what, in the present parlance of the prize ring, would be termed "bard" gloves, often...