Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Union, Thursday night, Mr. Lowell gave some interesting facts in regard to the beginnings of various athletic organizations in the college. In 1850 the first University Crew was formed, and in 1850 they rowed their first race with Yale. In 1857 the crew first introduced systematic training. The University Nine was organized in 1863, and ten years later, in 1873, foot-ball and track athletics were introduced. Since then we have been given the lacrosse and cricket teams...
Ever since the opening of college, and even before, criticism has been rife in regard to Harvard's so-called revolution in athletics. Rumors of all kinds have from time to time been put in circulation, and the coolness with which the imaginative writer has relegated Harvard to an inferior position in the field of sport, has a certain freshness which deserves better material. Without inquiry into the motives or desires of the faculty, the writers have described it as an unwarranted war upon "professionalism," a fatal blow to college athletics, and several other equally emphatic statements, which...
...welfare of the masses being in such a satisfactory position of prosperity, the next attention of the faculty was to the various athletic and sporting associations, and to the carrying out of the third and fourth of the above propositions. In this regard their moving incentive seemed to be that competition and tournaments had become a fixity in the college system, and the question which was left for them to determine was, how to bring the best influence to bear upon the students taking part. As a result of their deliberation a set of "Regulations of the Committee on Athletics...
Prof. Hill met about thirty-five seniors yesterday to give information in regard to commencement parts. The number this year of those entitled to parts, he said, was unusually large, there being seventy-five in all. In regard to the choice of subjects there was no distinction between an oration, a disquisition and a dissertation. Any subject suitable for one would be suitable for the other. They were all to be of the same length, capable of being read in ten minutes, and that, according to Prof. Hill's estimate, was about ten pages of ordinary writing. The parts...
...Coolidge followed for the affirmative, giving interesting statistics in regard to the duration of life of boating men and other athletes...