Word: share
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...First, That an undue share of time, money, and exertion is given to the cultivation of muscle in the universities; secondly, that by reason of success in athletics, the universities arrogate to themselves superiority where they do not possess it; thirdly, that other colleges and the outside world are deluded into this belief, and fall down and worship the gilded calf. We remember hearing a young sport say in a library in this city: 'There's no doubt about Harvard. I would n't give two cents to graduate at Yale. I graduated at Harvard.' Better no education...
...games of the Athletic Association last Saturday were very good as regards sport, and brilliant as regards audience. Providence certainly has contributed its share this year towards the success of the H. A. A., for both the Saturdays on which these games have been held were exceptionally fine. The track was in superb condition, and from some of the times made it hardly seems to merit the assertion of being over length. The sports began very soon after 2 P. M. with...
...entered Memorial Hall to the tune of "Johnny Morgan." The hall was well filled, though most of the recent Alumni had been attracted to the ball-game; and the exercises were undisturbed by any noisy demonstrations, or by any attempts on the part of the Sophomores to obtain a share of the "equal feast." At the close of the dinner, Professor John Langdon Sibley was conducted to the head of the table to lead the singing of the seventy-eighth psalm, after which Dr. Samuel Eliot, the President of the Alumni Association, arose and spoke as follows...
...nothing else to do, to look over the archives of one of the college papers, and see what the undergraduate mind is at times capable of producing. As we have always been of an unselfish nature, we think it is but fair to give our readers a share of the pleasure we experience in opening such contributions as these we have selected...
...board, and those who left Cambridge can claim, on their return, temporary absence allowance for that time. "Any member who withdraws from the Association within the week prior to the recess and joins again within the same limit after the recess, whether with the intention of avoiding his share of the charge or not, will be considered as temporarily absent." Breakfast will be served, for the remainder of the year, between the hours...