Word: older
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...management will have an event in the 'Varsity Fall Handicap Games and also hold a road race if the necessary arrangements can be made. In both events the new riders will be given good handicaps and will have as much chance to win as the older...
...object of the club in taking this house was to furnish a place where the younger graduates mignt be comfortably taken care of and enjoy the company of the older men. It will also be a convenient headquarters for Yale men in other sections of the country who come to New York on business or to witness athletic contests...
...more useful in youth and in later years. A man must continue the habit of athletic exercise through life. I do not like those sports which necessitate bodily collision, as well as those that do not. I consider those sports which can be maintained as a man grows older more advantageous...
...first came among us he was looked upon chiefly as a rowing coach who would benefit the rowing interests at Harvard. Since that time, however, the students have come to recognize his talent in wider fields, but more especially in that of public speaking. When a student at the older Cambridge, Mr. Lehmann was actively interested in debating, while at the same time he was a member of the crew. He represents the idea prevalent in England, and coming to be more generally recognized in this country today, that the athletic and the intellectual life are both essential...
...these facts it is evident that the friends of the movement cannot for a moment relax their efforts. As Mr. Richard Henry Dana pointed out in his recent address before the club there is great need for the young men of today to carry on the work of the older generatior, formerly led by George William Curtis, and now by Carl Schurz...