Word: sound
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard as she is, or go to Yale. Next come those who think foot ball all right as it is, or think the convention would have made whatever improvement can and need be made. These are few in number, and are not very fond of supporting their views with sound arguments. Then comes a large proportion of the students, who agree very nearly with the Athletic Committee; the only point of difference being in most cases that the students wish another attempt made in the foot ball convention, in which Harvard shall say, "These revised rules. or we cannot play...
...room in a private house where there are seven or eight other students. The seven or eight are, I believe, all musical. Under the circumstances, I of course expect the days and the evenings to be filled with music. I have learned to study equally well to the sound of the flute, violin, guitar and human voice. But however well I may get on during the day and evening, I find that I cannot sleep while my friends are making their music. As I write, the hour is past ten P. M. I am waiting for one violin to stop...
...Blaikie, the author of "How to Get Strong," and several other works of like nature, recently delivered an address to the students of Oberlin, his subject being, "Sound Bodies and How to Get Them...
Every member of the freshman class who weighs one hundred and forty-five pounds or more and is in sound health ought to consider himself entitled to a seat in the boat. If '88 is going to support her captain, and wishes to meet with success in this branch of athletics it seems to me that there should be at least fifty candidates at the captain's room tonight...
Then follows an account of the records broken during the past year. Mr. Coolidge closes his report with the following remarks in regard to betting. "Athletics at Harvard are now partially under the ban of the faculty and everything must be done to put them on a sound footing. Undoubtedly the strongest feeling against athletics is caused by the prevalence of betting and I should therefore urge that the association pass a vote, providing that those who accept offices in the association shall have no pecuniary interest in any contest...