Word: objections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...organized attempt to bring about a more cordial state of feeling between Harvard and Yale in athletic matters. This attempt was urged by men who had the interests of Harvard and of Yale at heart. Time and consideration were devoted by them to the attainment of the object in view, and there seemed to be fair reasons to believe that success would come in the venture. The Advocate and the CRIMSON joined in this movement and strenuously insisted on admittedly authentic information before anything of an adverse nature was even considered by them. The result was favorable. The Yale...
Such language as this, uttered at a public dinner, leads one to consider whether the conservative element who declare that the moral effect of football is harmful have not, after all, solid ground for their assertions. The further fact that none of the alumni present arose to object to the language used by Captain Beecher as being unseemly and as evincing a deplorable spirit, might well lend further weitht to the arguments against the game. By their silence all the members of Yale present at that dinner signalled their assent to these bullying and indecorous words...
...development of manliness in the sense of stubborn and strenuous effort; for wholesome and innocent use of the fire and sinew of youth, in the fresh air, under the clear sky of heaven; animated by loyal purpose, and sparing no passing pang for the furtherance of a desired object-there is nothing in the whole range of manly training which can equal it, the ends it accomplishes or the methods of reaching them. We have not yet any too much enthusiasm over physical culture. The work of those young fellows on Saturday, lifting a decorous mass of 6000 cold American...
...absence of the pastorate symphony. "Ma Contemporaine," a translation from Beranger, is not well done. It lacks entirely the grace of the original. Following this there is a well-written and interesting study on La Rochefoucauld. The quotations are chosen with a great deal of diserimination and accomplish their object of illustrating the points called up-a very rare thing, by the way, in student essays. "Mr. Hutton as a Critic" is too pedantic, and what good thoughts it contains are almost hidden by the insufficiency of the style. Some lines "To the Composite Photograph of the November Century...
This is the grand object to be attained. The straight line is the physical sign of health and longevity, of perfect structure and harmony of function, and a symmetrical development of the whole body...