Word: sakes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...practice of playing match games in large cities for the sake of gate money has crept into college sports within the past few years. The evils resulting are many: it leads to the introduction of features which draw crowds, independently of the merit of the game and the spirit of fair play; it induces men to put themselves in the hands of speculators; it cultivates a passion for excitement in players and spectators which make ordinary games seem tame, thus depriving the great majority of college students of a motive for physical exertion. Therefore...
...could be farther than is the writer, from desiring to discourage those men, (far too few in numbers), "who come to Harvard for thorough study in some particular branch of knowledge." The reform is urged only for the sake of removing the temptation, which now exists, to take one's electives from a single branch of study, not with the purpose of making it a life work, but from motives of indolence, or from ambition for collegiate distinction...
...central college of liberal arts as a promotive to a broader education of the masses below. But the very best opportunities from simple economic reasons can only be offered in some few central universities of all sciences. It is these universities that are too often neglected for the sake of lesser and less important sectional colleges...
...moral tone of their members, the careful maintenance of a high standard of membership by the influential fraternities, the better understanding of the fraternity system by its honest opponents, and finally the sheer exhaustion of those that heretofore have maintained a vigorous tilt at the windmill for exercise's sake, on finding that the windmill stands the attack much better than they...
...these suites could readily be rented at $200. Aside from all questions of money-getting, however, does it not seem unfortunate that such a historic old hall should be suffered to stand useless and decaying when so many men would be glad to room in it for the sake of its associations? There is an indescribable charm about the rooms of Holworthy, Stoughton and Hollis, that is lacking in the newer buildings. Why then should not Massachusetts be restored that some of us may have an opportunity to pass a few years of college life in one of the cheery...