Word: soled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...future welfare of recreation and athletics should take the matter in hand. They could raise a fund as Yale has done, and purchasing the most available pieces of land near the college, present them to their alma mater to be kept forever, just as Jarvis field is, for the sole purpose of recreation...
...civil government?" John Adams' subject was (1758), "Is civil government absolutely necessary for men?" Other questions, within ten years of the beginning of the revolution, were, "Is an inferior magistrate obliged to execute the orders of his superior, when they would plainly subvert the commonwealth?" "Are the people the sole judges of their rights and liberties?" "Is a government tyrannical in which the rulers consult their own interest more than that of their subjects?" "Is a government despotic in which the people have no check on the legislative power?" To the question, "Does the issue of paper money contribute...
...perhaps the Advertiser writer and his co-reformers are not much concerned about such evils. Their sole effort, it may be, is to lead back college sport by the stern hand of authority to the pure forms of earlier days-to the condition where, as the Advertiser puts, the participant or onlooker at the game can recall the "delights of the recesses of his school days...
...true. It is true that the undergraduate enters into a game generally with the thought prominent in his mind of beating. It is not true that in his whole system of athletics-in his preparation for this game or in his attendance at it, this is his sole object. We think there is hardly a man concerned in athletics at Harvard whose moving impulse in entering into a sport is not far more the idea of sound bodily training, regular exercise and pleasant recreation far more than any exclusive and feverish desire to win games. This every such...
...students know the reasons that actuated the large majority of the faculty in accepting the resolutions. The faculty, I hear from a private source, almost unanimously rejected the preambles. The preambles then were not our faculty's reasons for their action. These preambles, however, were written by their sole representative at the New York convention. Absurd and illogical as the preambles taken together with the resolutions confusedly are, by the public they are thought to be fully endorsed by the Harvard faculty. As usual, the faculty, I suppose, will keep a dignified (?) silence. This silence on the part...