Word: manifest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lively cordiality, which might be expected of college classmates coming together after years of separation to renew their friendships and recall the scenes and associations of their youth. There was no rowdyism or gross misconduct at these gatherings, and the effect of the punch has rarely been made manifest, except now and then, in the case of some newly-made Bachelor of Arts, who in that youthful exuberance incident to his acquiring a sheepskin, lost control of his appetite and his legs Such exhibitions have been exceedingly rare, however, and they have been frowned upon as often as they have...
...plan would, we feel sure, be cheerfully met by the college. Indeed, when we consider how much more has been raised by the Yale students than it is proposed to raise at Harvard for new athletic grounds, it would be strange were any plan which would offer such manifest advantages as this one to be rejected for lack of funds...
...practice from them as we should from professional teams, and every other nine in the college league has the benefit of professional practice. Under these circumstances we hope the faculty will see fit to consider carefully the question of rescinding a rule which places our athletic interests at a manifest disadvantage, and which thus far has resulted in no apparent good...
From interviews with prominent boating men in Harvard it seems that a great deal of interest is manifest to know what P. E. A. is doing on the water. Harvard is willing to send one of her representatives to teach the stroke, and the boat club should improve the opportunity. If once the stroke is learned it can be passed down to succeeding classes and thereby our men prove invaluable to Harvard, and create more enthusiasm here. - [Exonian...
...contest is the main point of attack. The opponents of the system assert that college sports and the benefits arising therefrom are confined to a very few - that the "nine," the "eleven," and the "four" or the "eight" form a small proportion of the college; and that hence the manifest evils of inter-collegiate contests are not to be endured for the sake of the benefit done to a few athletes. They insist that the evils are many and positive. Large concourses of students gather in the cities subject to all the excitement of college rivalry, to all the temptations...