Word: properous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game must have felt that it was a burning shame that men who showed so plainly that they could have accomplished so much should have been left to struggle in a hopeless individual contest against eleven men playing as one, and all through lack of proper coaching. It is this feeling, the protest against the needless sacrifice of excellent material, that gives the single touch of bitterness to our defeat...
Voted, That a committee be appointed to draw up such amendments to the present statutes, establishing the right of suffrage for overseers, as shall extend that right in accordance with the recommendations of this report, and that the same committee take the proper steps to pro cure the passage of such amendment by the Legislature...
...characteristic of the present style of play and of the blindness of umpires to the fouls and rough play which abound in every game is also timely. The rules on these points should be enforced. They are not enforced because "the spirit which governs the game is not a proper one, and infringements of rules have become almost traditional." The welfare of the sport demands a change. There has undoubtedly been great improvement in the game during the past half dozen years, but there is certainly room for just as great improvement in the future. The interscholastic game which...
...petitions for release from probation of certain of the foot ball men who are at present under faculty restrictions are, it is understood, to be acted upon today. The case of these men is of such vital interest to every man in college that it is only proper that there should be an expression of student opinion in the matter...
...year, so as to have sufficient time, if the plan seems advisable to them, to enter into the necessary arrangements with Oxford and Cambridge?" Until now Harvard has not been for several years in a position to take any initiative in this matter. But it is now entirely proper for our boating authorities to open the correspondence with Yale on the subject, and it is to be hoped that they will take some action. An international race is a thing which all lovers of amateur athletics would like to see arranged, and it would undoubtedly do much for boating...