Word: sports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the same objection has stood for two centuries, and Harvard has not yet seen fit to abandon her theory of college organization. The writer characterizes the "dig" or "hard student, with absorbed look and unelastic step, the probable consequence of his labors and his watching," and then the sport, "the neglecter of his lesson, with his fine clothes, his gay air, and genteel manners, and the fame of his merry-makings." Dismal are his conclusions drawn from the contrast. The author treats his text under the following sub-heads: 1. "We are an insulated community;" 2. "College...
...think much of the race. The New York Times says of the crews and the race : "They are university men, and their friends have made the event fashionable, and added to this is the tremendous "spurt" which national taste has given to all kinds of out-door sports during the last quarter of a century. It was something like fifty years ago that boat-racing became a feature of university pastimes, and it was distinctly the introduction of Eton boys, who took with them to Oxford and Cambridge this especially popular sport of their youth. The first races...
...would result in advancing the interests of canoeing at Harvard; but if it were to be formed merely to the end of adding another form of amateur contests to our already overstocked list, its advisability seems to me extremely doubtful. Canoeing-legitimate canoeing-is one of the most delightful sports in the world, and this fact is known full well to its votaries; but if the recent "boom" in canoeing interests, observable throughout the amateur sporting world, is to have its final outcome in the degenerating of this sport into a mere form of racing contests, then the "boom...
...Yale News states that there is some prospect of the formation of a canoe club at New Haven this spring, and in commending the project it says: "There are canoes enough in college, but any sport to be enjoyable must be companionable, and it is not strange that the old individual style of canoeing fails to arouse a lasting-interest. Recent experiments and improvements in canoe sailing have introduced an entirely new phase of the sport, and removed a vast deal of unnecessary labor. We hear every summer of the pleasant cruises of countless clubs, yet nothing has ever been...
Spring seems to be slowly making its appearance, and a few more successive days of sunshine will leave the roads in good condition for bicycling. This spring Harvard should show more interest in this sport, and the bicycle club, one of the largest in the country, should be noted for something besides its inactivity. Besides having races, and making them more important and more frequent than heretofore, the custom of the Boston Bicycle Club might be adopted. The members of this club meet every Sunday, in good weather, for a long run into the country. A long rest is taken...