Word: minds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Daniel Pratt has a colleague of a musical turn of mind...
...rowing, lacrosse, cricket, and so on. Many question whether these can rightly be called recreations, arguing that they require (and get) certainly more physical and not infrequently more mental exertion than the regular college duties. They argue further that the demands that such sports make on the body and mind for strength and endurance have an injurious effect. Of course there are extremes in all things, and too much time and brains spent on such recreations as base ball or foot ball are badly spent. Still, acknowledging the evils of extreme cases, one can certainly say with truth that good...
...will be well for all who read the following from the News criticism of the Yale foot ball eleven to bear in mind that the News does not pretend to praise the eleven for their good play but only to point out their faults. It will also be well to remember that this same eleven, which receives such apparently hard treatment at the hands of the News, has defeated Westeyan by a large score, as well as all the other teams against which it has been pitted this season. The personal criticisms are omitted for want of space...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -To a Western student anticipating his successful entrance into college, Harvard is apt to appear to his imagination in picturesque colors. He will have an impression in his mind of scholastic quiet unbroken, except, perhaps, by an occasional visit to Boston. Cambridge to him is the home of scholars. All this he will be justified in pleasantly anticipating and appreciating in contradistinction to Western bustle and enterprise. But his pleasing dreams will be most ruthlessly swept aside by the reality...
...childish exhibitions. If we desire to be consistent in our views, whatever we derogate in others, cannot be encouraged among ourselves even at intervals of four years. Of course, there will be the usual objection of conservatives who never desert a custom without protest. We must bear in mind, however, that the animosity necessary for a contest between the two lower classes no longer exists; generous rivalry has taken its place. Why, then keep up the form of a rush, if the spirit is gone? If a branch of a tree is dead, we lop it off. For the same...