Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent years increasing attention has been continually directed to the importance of physical culture among young men in college. There is reason to believe that if the importance of this subject has not been exaggerated, at least the methods employed for encouraging it have been more or less mistaken. It is too often the case that at the beginning of a session young men are animated for a week or two by a very lively zeal to participate in athletic sports which in a brief period wears itself out; after which the gymnasium is for the most part deserted. What...
...dropping on the ball and then in running and passing. All the candidates showed an activity and eagerness which augur well. While it is too early to begin to make predictions as to the make-up of the eleven, the outlook is good. There seems to be no reason why, with hard and faithful practice, Harvard cannot place a strong team in the field in the coming contests with Yale and Princeton...
...other colleges may pursue special lines of study. It is certainly true that the undergraduate department of Columbia has not progressed in proportion to the School of Mines and the School of Law, nor proportionately to the advances made by the undergraduate departments at Harvard and Yale. One reason given for this is that at Columbia the essence of college life, such a vital factor of undergraduate existence elsewhere, is entirely lacking. But this can hardly explain the almost stationary position which the college department of Columbia has now held for the past ten years. With such a city...
...Professional base-ball players, professional rowers and professional athletes generally far surpass collegians in their specialties. Yet there are people who would rather see contests between collegians than professionals. The reason is that no taint of jockeying attaches to what the college boys do. There is every motive for extreme effort, and public opinion would discountenance every victory by a trick. This trait of disinterested honesty gives a special interest to expressions of political opinion by college men. Moreover, as they are alert in forming opinions, an idea of what the progresive intelligence of the country thinks on current topics...
...while the Republicans have increased more in numbers, but far less in proportion, or by only 37 per cent., from 70 to 96. If the boys think as their fathers do, the fathers are more numerously Democratic on Presidential issues than any one has yet found equally good reason for believing. At Harvard, in 1884, Cleveland had only 13 supporters and Blaine 123. Here again there is large growth for Blaine, overbalanced by a marvelous growth for Cleveland. Two hundred and fifty-one is a handsome increase over 123, but it is as nothing compared with the expansion...