Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recitations. Lectures at six-thirty, seven-thirty, and eight thirty, except Saturdays, would increase the number of hours forty per cent and probably afford adequate relief, for the present at least. This plan, to the average Harvard man, may appear at first sigh monstrous, but there is no reason why it should be so. German and English students are accustomed to evening appointments, and Harvard men should not be disturbed at the idea...
...decision of the Faculty not to allow the musical clubs to make their Christmas trip will bring the keenest disappointment not only to the members of the musical clubs themselves but to almost the whole undergraduate body. The disappointment is the deeper because no reason for forbidding the trip, which appears to the undergraduates to be of any weight, has been given them...
...there is something beyond the scores to be considered. In the first halves of the Princeton game and the Pennsylvania game, the eleven played a game which none of the other college teams with better records could excel. But in both games Harvard was beaten fairly. The reason, which all agree, was that Harvard players had not the physical endurance of their opponents. In both the Princeton and Pennsylvania games man after man was injured and the whole team fell off in its play in the second half...
...reason for this lack of strength and endurance is what must be found out. Some believe that the training has been too hard and long. But it has been, in fact, lighter than in past years, and no heavier than the Princeton and Pennsylvania training this fall. The question of how long and how hard the training shall be can safely be left to the coaches, the trainer and the medical advisors...
...today, the team deserves our sincerest gratitude. We have also to thank Messrs. Waters and Newell who have given so much of their time and taken so many pains in coaching the men. If future teams work as conscientiously as Captain Wrightington's we have every reason to believe that before long we shall regain our former position in athletics...