Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action of the Athletic Committee in forbidding the employment of a paid coach, seems to be unwarranted and unwise. To make good this statement, we shall first give the Committee's reasons for their action, and then our reasons against it. The considerations influencing the Committee will be stated as fully as they could be ascertained in an interview with one of the Committee...
...statement that there will be no professional coach for the crews during the coming year is, as yet, only a rumor...
...Encyclopaedic writer, to whose learned dissertation on the game we have already owed our debt, does indeed make one statement to which we must venture to demur. Winchester and Harrow, he says, are "the chief exponents of the game wherein kicking alone is allowed as a means of propulsion." Eton "plays a hybrid game in two different ways, 'at the Wall' and 'in the Field,' the latter being a sort of mixture of both kinds of play." Mother Eton has been a good deal harried and mocked in these latter times, poor thing ! But surely so baseless an imputation...
...light, active crew, if the men are all strong and healthy, can be made as effective as a heavy crew. In this opinion he is supported by the actual tests and measurements of Dr. Sargent. It is found that the heaviest men are by no means the strongest. This statement however, does not mean that men of 190 lbs., fully developed and able to handle their own weight would not be more desirable for the crew than lighter men, but mere weight ought not be sufficient to insure a man's position in the boat. The tendency at Harvard...
Harvard men who are intending to go abroad next summer, will do well, before they make up their minds irrevocably to the step, to pause and read the following statement upon the evils of foreign travel, taken from an article in one of the German magazines. It is written, of course, from a German standpoint. "The passion for foreign travel," says the writer, "constantly stimulated as it is by improved means of communication, involves the grestest danger to the nation-moral as well as political. No less than $40,000,000 to $60,000,000 are annually thus lost...