Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There are certain very apparent reasons why it is desirable that a class should have some one to represent it, and there seems to be no good reason for delaying the organization of Ninety-eight much longer...
...side, yet with never a semblance of rough play. It was the kind of football any one must take pleasure in watching, - the kind that it is perfectly possible for any two elevens to play. Messrs. Forbes, Bancroft and Crane, who have directed the training of the eleven, have reason to feel well satisfied with their work. To them and to the team and its substitutes is due the gratitude of the whole University...
After a long season of hard training the work of the freshman eleven will end today. The game should be more interesting than previous freshman contests for the reason that the result in all probability will depend on the skill and the knowledge of football tactics shown by the two elevens, rather than on pure physical strength or star individual playing, as has often been the case. The agreement by which 'varsity players are excluded from the team is one of the best reforms of the year. Not only does it do away with danger which has attended the playing...
...least 200 men at Harvard this fall. Any changes which would withdraw the incentive to this physical work would be most unfortunate, for it is a fact that the average man will seldom take the trouble to do a thing that is beneficial to his health for that reason alone. In the next two months we are sure to hear endless schemes and proposals for reforming the game most, of which will be utterly worthless. We believe that if the men who intend offering advice will stop to think a moment of what they feel were the worst features...
...body was provided for while in the tomb. Food was left for its subsistence. It was believed that the double would continue only while the body lived. For this reason great care was taken in embalming the body and in the construction of the tomb. It was thought possible to increase the chance of the continuance of the double by placing in the tomb statues of the dead. Then arose the practice of covering the walls with representations of offerings of food, with magic formulae for transforming these representations into food...