Word: sports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...urge all bicyclers to do all in their power to insure the success of the meeting. Entries must be in before May 13. It is to be hoped that the attendance at the races will be large enough to insure their continuance. Bicycling has always been a popular sport at Harvard, but interest in it has dwindled during the past year. It will be a matter for congratulation if the coming races shall revive the old-time interest and make bicycle races a permanent institution...
...permit such regulations to be long in operation." It is not a fact that the Harvard or Princeton faculties have endeavored to suppress athletics at their respective colleges. What they did try to do was to endeavor to draw a line between gentlemen who play base-ball for sport and professionals who make the game a means of earning their livelihood. Their object was to prevent as far as possible the entrance of any of the many objectionable features of professionalism into college sports. Their purpose was a laudable one and they would have succeeded had it not been...
...than a man who fancies that life is slipping away from him can with complacency think of. Daniel was then making his annual tour of the colleges, and we thoughtless boys persuaded him to address us, took up a collection for him and then as the climax of our sport sent him to 'Prex's' house to tea, on an assumed invitation from 'Prex' himself. Subsequently I assisted in a grand entertainment in Daniel's behalf, near at home, on which occasion he was presented with the mammoth tin watch and chain, which many of my readers will remember...
...difficult to devise any arrangements which can give universal satisfaction. But, in spite of the difficulties of the question, it is one that should be grappled with, and for this reason any suggestions should be considered. More men are probably directly interested in tennis than in any other sport in college and the subject should be considered as of at least as great importance as any branch of athletics. While we do not propose to suggest any complete revolutionary scheme, there seem to be a few points which might be touched upon with advantage...
...during the winter months that the student is most likely to neglect proper exercise, while in the spring and summer the inducements to out-of-door sport are many and strong. The prospect of inter-collegiate games in the spring fills the college gymnasium during the winter. When warm weather comes the crews and nines, selected from many candidates, take to the water or go on the diamond. But this occurs only after long months of excellent daily exercise by hundreds of college students continued through the very season when exercise is most irksome. Remove the inter-collegiate game...