Word: lights
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...candidates for the ninety-seven crew began work yesterday afternoon. About twenty-five men responded to the call for candidates and were given light work with dumb-bells, after which they took a short run up North Avenue. Nearly all of the members of last year's freshman crew are at present rowing with the 'varsity squad, but as the new men have all had more or less experience in rowing, a good crew is practically assured. The men will begin work on the machines almost immediately...
...thoughts to imply that we considered that study should be subordinated to athletics, rather than athletics to study. It is simply an undeniable fact that some men do injure their health by excessive study; cases are not unknown of students who were made ill by a little light exercise in the gymnasium. It is as a corrective to this tendency that athletics find their chief justification...
...been a most disastrous one for Harvard, we do not believe that it will prove such in the long run. Our team has been beaten twice; - the first time largely by luck, the second time by distinctly superior playing. Nevertheless, we believe we never stood in a more favorable light before the public than at present. Feeling against the "anything to win" policy has grown very strong, and the sooner that policy is abandoned the better for amateur sport everywhere...
...team will not practice today but will go out to Auburndale. Tomorrow there will be light practice on Soldiers Field which will be open. The eleven will leave for Philadelphia Wednesday morning...
There is a light drizzling rain falling, and Springfield is very quiet for the night before the big game. The betting is unusually light, a favorite bet being even money that Yale will triple Harvard's score...