Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...consequently no good will come of the practice. I once heard an old ball player say "take an ordinary fielding nine, but all sure and hard hitters, add the finest pitcher and catcher in the league and it would beat almost any nine set before it. While this statement may be slightly exaggerated it has "much of method" in it for the strength of a team lies in its "battery" and its ability to hit good pitching. This ability can never be learned from an amateur no matter how faithfully the nine may practice. It is difficult...
...have recently seen a copy of the New Haven Palladium in which is printed the following item: "We are sorry to see in the Yale News the statement that the 'Varsity' are doing so and so. This is a Harvardism. But if we must affect something, surely some other place than Harvard should be copied from." The use of "Varsity" as an abbreviation for "University," when the term is applied to crews and teams representative of the college and professional schools, is not by any means a Harvardism, but, as all college men know, it is the word used...
...needs of the time and place in which we live." This is the cry which is raised by the opponents of Greek and it is to the spirit of this cry, though not to the words, that we at Harvard should take most emphatic exception. We deny the statement that our colleges should be influenced in any but a negative direction by the popular opinion which assails them. This doctrine may do very well for the "fresh-water" and second-rate colleges, whose only object is to cause a steady stream of gold dollars to flow into the pockets...
After ten years of experiment the question was brought to the attention of the faculty of Berlin and the result of their investigations is embodied in the address of Prof. Hoffman in the following statement "that all efforts to find a substitute for the Classical Languages, whether in Mathematics, in the Modern Languages, or in the Natural Sciences, have been hitherto unsuccessful; that, after long and vain search, we must always come back finally to the result of centuries of experience, that the surest instrument that can be used in training the mind of youth is given...
...employing all trainers whatever; "They are in favor of forbidding college clubs and crews to employ trainers," (p23): and yet from expressions let fall at this conference we should not judge that the faculty's prohibition was by any means so absolute as one would naturally imply from this statement. Indeed we do not understand that the college holds any objection to the employment of a trainer for the crews such as Col. Bancroft, nor wouldn't oppose the employment as permanent trainer of the other teams of any satisfactory and competent man, even if a professional who had abandoned...