Word: standing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college, and his fellows have no use for him. What the critic deems to be preference for the body over the mind is in no small measure preference for collective aims over individual ones. It may be a short-sighted view of the matter to think of the high stand man as working for himself, and the athlete as working for his college. Yet it is one which contains a large element of truth; and the honor paid to college athletics is based on a healthful recognition of this half truth which the critic so often overlooks...
...later in the year in the gymnasium, he would have a far different opinion of the athletic life here. Athletic interest at Harvard is pretty well divided among a number of different sports, but whatever criticism they may be open to, we doubt whether this particular one will stand...
...section of the grand stand has been reserved for the Brown men, who will attend in a body. Many graduates of Brown will also be seated with the undergraduates. The line-up will probably...
...annual election of the Junior Promenade and sophomore german committees has attracted the particular attention of those classes during the week, and the undergraduates at large have watched the ontcome with interest. But the one meeting which will prove all important to the future stand of the university in the public eye was that of the Yale Union on Friday evening. In opening the work of the year in the new quarters, President W. H. Clark reported the remarkable support the efforts to raise funds had met with, and the zeal the graduates as well as active members had shown...
CHESS CLUB-The blue-book for entries in the chess tournament will stand open at Bartlett's till six o'clock Saturday night...