Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...only a small audience was present to hear his most interesting and instructive address, After being introduced by Professor F. G. Peabody, Mr. White said that he deemed it important that in a country like ours people of intelligence and influence should know what problems are coming up in regard to the management of the poor. It is just as easy for philanthropic men of wealth to work judiciously as to work carelessly...
...communication in your issue of Friday in regard to tug-of-war gives one the impression that nothing remains to be said in its favor. Not with standing the forcible objections therein urged, something may be said...
...present time it would be inadvisable to request the intercollegiate association to abolish tug-of-war. At Columbia they regard it with nearly, if not quite, as much interest as we do football. They have two of last year's team, and available material fully capable of filling the vacancies. They have already had a series of class pulls. Princeton has practically the same team. It is scarcely probably that either of these will consent to abolish an event the chances of winning which are so greatly in their favor. Then, Yale intends to enter a team at Mott Haven...
...which the present condition of our athletics may have had upon their action, we wish for a moment to call the attention of our readers to the historical aspect of the question, believing that a large minority of Harvard men are, to say the least, very imperfectly informed in regard to this. Early in April, 1888, a committee of the Overseers was appointed to consider the question of intercollegiate athletics; this committee reported in favor of the complete abolition of all intercollegiate contests in which Harvard was to be a competitor. The report as made, however, was not accepted...
...nature of the Athletic committee was accepted by the corporation and overseers, but it was voted in addition, October 17, That the faculty and committee be informed that the corporation and board of overseers are of the opinion that further restrictions should be placed upon intercollegiate contests, in regard to the places where and the days when they should be played, and the teams that shall take part therein. Thus it will be seen that the question of restricting Harvard athletics to New England is not a new question, that in fact, the project has been uppermost in the minds...