Word: staying
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...support. I think it may safely be said that we train the few at the expense of the many; and thus in athletics as everywhere else produce a little group of specialists. Now this might be an excellent policy were our specialists always to remain with us. But their stay is always limited. As a rule they play but three years at most. When they are gone, one newspaper after another takes up the cry - "The Harvard team is greatly weakened by the loss of A": "Without X Harvard has no chance at the championship": and so on ad nauseum...
...been arranged with the Longwood and other local clubs, and also with the University of Pennsylvania. Now, if the University of Pennsylvania sends a team to Cambridge, the Clicket Club must pay one half of their expenses, besides the cost of entertaining them in a fitting manner during their stay. This requires money. Then, again, if our team is to go away to play other teams in other places than Cambridge, they must have the wherewithal to pay their...
...Goodwin, ex'89, sailed last Wednesday for Germany, where he intends to stay a year devoting his attention entirely to study at some university...
...student, as a student, has no more acquaintance with the world about the college than a clerk has in a town where he may happen to be employed. If he is introduced to people, he is sure of a hospitable reception; if not he may stay there, for years without knowing a soul whom he does not meet in a professional way. This is a rather more serious matter than it seems at first, for it involves the fact that the life of many students is passed chiefly in the society of men; and this state of things I believe...
...extend our heart felt sympathy to those unfortunates whom the hard decrees of a cruel fate and a more cruel faculty, doom to stay in Cambridge during the recess. As for those who reject the blessed privilege of leaving the college for a few days, - who stay in Cambridge to grind, - we can only pity for their foolishness, and pass them by. To those whom no powers without nor inanity within can keep in Cambridge, we wish the best of good times...