Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale has discarded the Davis oar, and those now used by the University eight in practice are eight inches longer than those of last season...
...fourth year of the Harvard Annex has demonstrated that the undertaking may fairly be regarded as no longer an experiment. The success of this form of collegiate education for women is said to be assured. A fund of $67.000, has been obtained by the ladies of the Executive Committee...
During the recent convention of representatives from Harvard, Yale and other colleges to consider the subject of athletics, one of the speakers unbosomed himself thus: "Athletics have come to the pass where they are no longer fair and open trials of strength and skill, but on the contrary, as at present conducted, they train the young men to look upon victory as the rewards of treachery and deceit. That this is the case, anyone who has seen the game of baseball as it is played by the so-called best college nines will at once admit. For the pitcher, instead...
...introduction of professional methods and spirit into college sports. The two should be totally divorced. It seems for this reason that the faculty objected to employing for temporary periods any professional trainer. If such a trainer, however, had renounced the pursuit of his profession he would no longer be considered a professional within the faculty's meaning, and such a one could be employed by the college...
...been spoken of. This ought not to leave any doubt on this point. With regard to the proposition to have the law men row against the winning class, it would not be possible for the two races to come off on the same day, and to keep the men longer in training might cause discontent, when the approach of the annuals is considered...