Word: pythian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Memorial Hall waiters will shortly give a concert and ball for the benefit of one of their members who is sick. The affair will come off at Pythian Hall, Cambridgeport, on Thursday evening, March 20, 1884, at 8 o'clock. Tickets 35 cents...
...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...