Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following comments on the personnel of the Harvard crew are given : "Curtis, slender, intellectual of countenance, as becomes a true Bostonian, who proved last year that a man may lack avoirdupois, wear eye-glasses, and yet row a splendid race, sets the crew a beautiful stroke. Behind him the ponderous Chalfant, with a trunk like Schwartz's and with massive legs and thighs, in boating parlance, "puts plenty of beef into his oar" at every stroke. Then come Hudgens, tall and squarely built; Clark and Hammond, men of height and brawn; Sawyer at No. 2, where he rowed last year...
Interest is being awakened in athletics in France. A splendid fete of athletes has been held at Reims, at which about 2,000 young men from all parts of France assisted. The minister of public instruction attended the banquet, and said that if his hopes and his programme were only adhered to, France would in a few years' time be able to point with pride to a race of active and manly youths, somewhat different in physique and appearance from the pallid boys who loiter about a small courtyard, or walk in procession through the streets on half-holidays...
...Brown, and matters began to look dubious for Harvard. The supporters of the crimson, however, kept up courage and gave the nine nine rousing cheers as they came to bat, and the sequel showed that their encouragement was not in vain. Le Moyne struck out; Coolidge made a splendid drive to left, which nearly bored a hole through the high board fence which forms a worthy assistant to the church in preventing home runs. Olmsted followed with a hit which succeeded in overreaching the fence, but was balked by the wire screen which, to make assurance doubly sure, is built...
...were seven thousand spectators at the Yale-Princeton game in New York on Decoration Day. The N. Y. Herald in commenting on the game, says: "The contest as a whole was but little in advance of the amateur playing of twenty years ago, and in striking contrast to the splendid exhibition on the same field the day before...
...state that "the list of shocking disorders might be prolonged indefinitely, and its significance lies in the fact that college authorities seem totally unable to grapple with and subdue the demon of misrule." We think that a good, wholesome college, or even high school, education would have been a splendid thing for not only the "penny-a-liner" on the Times, but also for all others of his class who attempt to keep the public informed as to the "shocking disorders" in our higher seats of learning...