Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...senior eleven played two twenty-minute balrs, against the Cambridge Latin school yesterday afternoon on the field back of Divinity. Cambridge was made up of light men, but they played a remarkably plucky game. They out-played Harvard in team work but were not a match in weight. Cambridge passed well and their backs were trained. At the start Raymond's kick lost Ninety twenty yards. Rushes by McLeod and Aiken, however, regained what was lost and and brought the ball to the thirty yard line. During the scrimmages Cambridge tackled well. Crane got another fifteen yards, aided...
During the past few days Harvard has been signally honored by the presence within her walls of Sir Edwin Arnold, so well known to all cultured people as the author of "The Light of Asia." Mr. Arnold is the guest of President Eliot, and by the latter's request has very kindly delivered two lectures on topics related to his chosen field of research-on the Upanishad and the Mahabarhata. Besides their inherent interest these lectures have given us the opportunity and the pleasure of meeting Mr. Arnold as it were face to face...
Considering the question in this light he continued, saying that all education must look to soundness of the body primarily. The student cannot neglect his body except at the expense of his mind; hence the necessity of laying down strict rules to keep the body healthy. Correct habits of eating, of sleeping and of cleanliness should be aimed at is an even development physically, not large muscles, but sound respiration, erect and easy carriage, evenly strong limbs, back and arms. Such a symetrical development of the muscular nature gives an even, placid, firm mental temperament. Then, too the vigorous body...
During the coming week two lectures will be given by Sir Edwin Arnold, well known to all as the author of the "Light of Asia." The subject of Mr. Arnold's Tuesday lecture will be the "Upanishad," and for Wednesday the Persian poem "Mahabharata" with citations...
...communications deserve especial attention, as they throw some light on Harvard athletics. The first maintains that "we are not inferior to Yale in athletics," but that study receives more attention here than at our rival college, and that therefore "the real cause of our lack of superiority in athletics (not our inferiority) is the greater earnestness and higher kind of work done here." The second takes a different ground and attributes our ill success to our social system. It argues that the athletics of the freshman class have their interests turned aside by their election to a sophomore society, "which...