Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...during the winter months that the student is most likely to neglect proper exercise, while in the spring and summer the inducements to out-of-door sport are many and strong. The prospect of inter-collegiate games in the spring fills the college gymnasium during the winter. When warm weather comes the crews and nines, selected from many candidates, take to the water or go on the diamond. But this occurs only after long months of excellent daily exercise by hundreds of college students continued through the very season when exercise is most irksome. Remove the inter-collegiate game...
...building purposes," bewails the Crimson, "there will be no class nines, no cricket, no lacrosse, very little tennis" and "a handful of good athletes will play base-ball in the spring and foot-ball in the autumn, and that will be all." This is certainly a gloomy prospect. But even at the worst we should hardly be reduced to this, as a large part of Holmes field is unfit for building purposes on account of a deep quick-sand. But any such encroachments on the fields now devoted to athletics are indeed "in strange contrast with the enthusiastic indorsement...
...poet of the Williams Argo views with hilarity the prospect of the reform of the civil service and the introduction of "competitive examinations." He explains his little scheme as follows...
There is a prospect of a winter meeting of the Williams Athletic Association, something which has never happened before...
...bill has been introduced into the Connecticut legislature to compel the owners of all high houses to provide rope fire-escapes. If such a measure could be carried in Massachusetts there might be some prospect of the introduction of such fire escapes at Harvard by the authorities-under the tender persuasion of the police...