Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would that our President might take such active interest in our sports, as to speak directly to us and not at us! He referred to his own connection with athletics during his collegiate days at Yale, and of the deep interest he took in them, especially in boating. He spoke of the clumsy, awkward boats in use at that time, as broad as they were long, modelled somewhat after the old Dutch Burgomaster's wife, in sharp contrast to our arrow like shells. Many of our most distinguished men were during their college course identified with boating interests; such...
President white showed that the average standing and mental qualifications of crew men were higher than the average in a college as a whole, citing his own case as an example. As regards the health of the men, he spoke of statistics carefully prepared from English universities of the men who had taken part in rowing contests, as showing that the health of each one was not only not injured but decidedly benefited by the course of training. President White went on further to say that boating was an excellent way to work off the surplus energy of the students...
...last meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Mr. Robert C. Winthrop, Jr., spoke of the inscription on the base of John Harvard's statue, reading "John Harvard, founder, 1638," which gives the impression that this denotes the year in which our college was founded. As considerable comment has been caused by the date on the inscription, Mr. Wintrop's remarks will be of general interest...
Before the debate was opened a vote was taken on the merits of the question, with the following result : Affirmative, 43, negative, 12. The vote on the strength of argument of the principal disputants stood, affirmative, 22, negative, 32. The following gentlemen spoke from the floor : Messrs. Whitman, L. s.,Noble,'85,Merriam,'86, Strong,'85, Hamilton,'87. After the debute had returned to the Principal disputands for summing up of rgument, a vote was on the merits of the debate as a whole. The affirmative received is votes and The negative 18. The following was selected as the subject...
...criticisms of the foot ball team a few days ago, we spoke of the necessity of training one man, and training him constantly, for the express purpose of kicking goals. The man selected for this important work should be out on Jarvis field practising hour after hour, kicking goals in every sort of wind and weather, from every part of the field, and under every circumstance likely to arise in a game. It is, of course, impossible at times to kick a goal successfully, and the college cannot, in all fairness, blame a man for doing the best he knows...