Word: mind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gone," it says, "so far that the idea of playing any game except for the purpose of beating, seems to an undergraduate simply absurd." This statement is both true and not true. It is true that the undergraduate enters into a game generally with the thought prominent in his mind of beating. It is not true that in his whole system of athletics-in his preparation for this game or in his attendance at it, this is his sole object. We think there is hardly a man concerned in athletics at Harvard whose moving impulse in entering into a sport...
...evil of liability to strains and injuries in athletics cannot be entirely obviated. It is well to bear in mind, at this point, The fact that even those who are not athletes do not, therefore, enjoy immunity from accidents. Still it is possible that a slight injury, to a person having organic weakness, might result in a fatal difficulty. Such an issue might be avoided by the requirement that every candidate for trial should be examined by a competent physician...
...President McCosh of Princeton said: "We teach every branch of high learning taught in any college in America. We have to make some studies elective. The obligatory studies are the old branches which have stood the test of ages, which trained our forefathers, and are fitted to enlarge the mind and prepare young men for their life work. Among these we have now and mean to retain the classical tongues, especially Greek, as opening to us the grandest literature of the ancient world, and especially the language of the Greek Testament. On this subject we are unanimous. For myself...
...large cities, however, may be had good hunting, and he who had in his college days become a fair wing shot and acquired a taste for shooting will find open to him during his vacation a never ending means of enjoyment. Nothing will more refresh an overworked mind and body than a day spent with that zest which only a sportsman knows, after snipe and ducks in the marsh, or among woody haunts of ruffled grouse. It is almost needless to mention the pleasures of wing shooting, to recall the never-to-be-forgotten thrill of excitement when a grouse...
...excess they are positively detrimental to the nervous system. This is the great trouble with our athletic clubs and college societies. All sorts of feats are indulged in for personal gratification, for medals, for money. How can a student give that cool, deliberative thought to his books while his mind is fevered with the excitement of the coming regatta, or his dreams are disturbed by visions of victory is the next day's base-ball game? The Hemenway system, as practiced at Harvard, is being successfully introduced in many of the colleges of the United States. Wellesley, John Hopkins University...