Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bear the strain of prolonged exertion, especially if severe. Some can not sleep, some can not eat, some have nervous disturbances, all of which suggests that mental qualities are involved, as well as bodily ones, in the production of the athlete. We have heard the statement made, by one who knew what he spoke of, that college men who aspire to success in both studies and athletics suffer in their constitutions. To restrain such from exertions which they can not safely make should be, and is one of the duties of a professor of physical culture...
...Base-Ball Association held its annual fall meeting last night in Holden, Mr. Rand, '88, presiding. The treasurer of last year's nine, read his report, showing a surplus, with all bills paid, of $2784.80. The itemized statement will be published in a few days. The following officers were then elected: President, W. H. Rand, Jr., '88; vice-president, A. F. Holden, '88; treasurer, J. C. McCoy, '90; manager, T. Woodbury...
...yesterday's issue gave its readers to understand that the evils of Harvard life lying in the social root were ineradicable because of our proximity to a large city. This idea is unique, and, we believe, has never been advanced before; but it is not the relty of the statement, but the absuldity contained in it, which we wish to consider. To say that there is no remedy for the snobbishness manifest in so much of our life here is to admit more than any one ought who feels that he has life and vigor...
Moreover, we believe that statement to be absolutely false. There is a remedy for the great evil which has taken such possession here, and which has brought our athletics to the deplorable state in which they exist at present. That remedy lies in the students themselves. It can come from no other source. It may be awakened from contact with the world outside, or from some reading which will result in giving insight; but the solution none the less lies with the students. To make a fool of one's self is, no doubt, a great sin; but that...
...benefits accruing from such an arrangement would be obvious, but a statement of a few may not be out of place. The interest in college boating would be increased enormously. A greater knowledge of the men and customs of the universities of England would be afforded us and the reverse would be true of Oxford and Cambridge. In meeting against a common enemy, Yale and Harvard would be drawn more closely together, and there would be less hostility in all our other athletic contests...