Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sargent in his lecture on "Training," at Union Hall, Boston, last week, said, that not only had overwork a bad effect, but nervous exhaustion was quite as bad, and it was on account of this latter that the difficulty in regard to the university boat race had been so long unsettled between Harvard and Yale, as, if all preliminaries of the race were not settled before the day of rowing, it would tend to a nervousness which would probably effect the result. As regards food, Dr. Sargent said he would give a man to eat what his natural appetite craved...
...feet or farther than ninety feet from the central line of buoys. It is further provided that if during the first ten strokes either boat shall be disabled by any bona fide accident the start shall be taken over again. The following is the substance of the provision in regard to the position of the boats at the start: Each boat shall carry a flag nine by five inches on a metal rod eighteen inches high, the rod to be fixed perpendicularly at the stem of the shorter boat, and on the longer boat at a distance from the stem...
President Eliot, though avoiding the matter directly, spoke of the predicament in which the university was placed by being compelled to give to Governor Butler the honorary title of LL. D. "We are always prosperous at Cambridge," said President Eliot. "Years differ a little in regard to numbers and in regard to pecuniary gains, but we are always growing, and always gaining; and if we did not we should still be prosperous and happy. For, after all, it is with institutions very much as it is with individual men; happiness comes from the free, natural, useful play of noble faculties...
President Eliot was followed by Mr. Evarts. "I am confirmed," he said, "in an opinion which, as a Yale man, I early formed in regard to Harvard - that there was no college in the country whose graduates improved so much after leaving college. We have a right to be proud of Yale, since the great compliment which Lord Bacon, in a familiar passage, prophetically paid us. Lord Bacon, as you all know, says: 'Eating makes the full man, drinking the ready man, but to have been educated at Yale College, a wise man.' Now, at Cambridge, they attempt the impossible...
...Harvard the game has been steadily growing in favor, and the university team has well vindicated its claim to popular regard by its uniform success throughout its entire career. The organization of a freshman team assures the university organization a constant supply of trained material and gives it good assurance of permanent strength...