Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Charles Thayer, late of the Olympian Club, will have charge of the skate room and Professor Stumche of the floor at the new institute rink...
...Olympian, Pythian, Isthmian, and Nemean models to be used for our colleges? Are Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia to gain glory by the strength of their students' muscles, and virtue by betting and drinking? Is the athletic contest before a miscellaneous crowd the best way to develop mental culture and moral health? Is it not even a very poor method of ministering to bodily soundness? Do athletes live long? Let medical men answer. I am ashamed to argue such a question. The whole business is demoralizing and directly inimical to the objects of a collegiate institution. Roughness, vulgarity...
There was a sophomore skating party at the Olympian rink last night...
There is to be a grand Christmas carnival at the Olympian Club roller skating rink next Monday...
...most excellent work on the Syntax of the Greek Moods and Tenses, and of many other philological treatises.... The school, for the present, until it shall have erected its own building, has rented a newly repaired house near Hadrian's Gate and the Pillars of the Temple of Olympian Zeus. We heartily welcome the coming of this new school of the Americans, and sincerely hope that the results of its work will be worthy of the great expectations which it has aroused, and of the high scholarship of its members. The young researchers from America may rest assured that they...