Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reason for the action, I am informed," he said, "is the intense excitement and rivalry which has existed for some time between the two universities, and the sentiment which has been growing for the past few years in relation to the baseball contests between the two institutions. It is not intended, I understand, to cripple Pennsylvania, nor to be a final cessation of athletic contests between the two universities, but simply to be a suspension of athletic interests for a time in the hope that the present high feeling may be moderated...
...location of the Veterinary School in Boston has made it so completely separated from the rest of the University that a large number of college men know little or nothing about it. For this reason an account of what the school is doing will be of interest...
...some reason there has been no Exeter club at Harvard for some years, notwithstanding the fact that Exeter has prepared more boys for Harvard than any other preparatory school...
...which has been necessary to determine the merits of the various candidates. Now that the few best oarsmen have been chosen, the interest of the University will follow them eagerly in their really serious work of developing an eight who can row together. We believe that there is every reason to be well satisfied with the progress which has been made so far, and to anticipate a continuation of it. Whatever may be the ultimate chances against Yale, there can be no doubt that the present system of rowing will have received the fairest possible test, and that the crew...
...doubt that with the end of them would come the end of their abuses. Intercollegiate athletics have, however, far too much in their favor to be thus summarily abolished. That the Faculty and the Nation feel themselves unequal, as they must, to the task of reforming athletics, is no reason why they should refuse a hearing to those who are more willing and able to undertake...