Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...captain of the victorious Harvard team which won the Mott Haven cup in '80, '81 and '82. In '80 he won the intercollegiate championships at 100 yards, 220 yards and one-quarter mile, a feat never before or since accomplished by one man in one day. Mr. Wendell is still actively interested in Harvard athletic matters, and his opinion reflects to a large extent the graduate sentiment concerning the proposed change. He said...
...Fourth-The committee speak of the professional methods and want of good feeling. As to the latter, a dinner between the rival teams after the contests are over, such as the Oxford and Cambridge crews used to have, and perhaps still have, would tend to remove ill feeling...
...interest manifested in the class races on the Charles is growing stronger year by year, as the crowded tug boats and the alley along the river, packed full of people, will amply testify to. Although the race did not begin at the advertised time, still the promptitude and energy in getting everything ready for the start evinced by the management was such that what little room for censure there is on this score can easily be overlooked. There were two things that occurred in the race, however, which need to be spoken of in order that they may be avoided...
...cannot help thinking that the petition should have been acted upon by this time. As it is, there will probably occur a succession of delays until it is too late for any action to take effect-at least till next year. However, though disappointed, we are not disheartened. We still hope that the petition will eventually be granted, though the well-known opposition of the Overseers to athletics may prove a temporary obstacle. The only thing for us to do is to persevere; we have good arguments to back us, a liberal-minded faculty to deal with, and the support...
...acceptances for the eight hundredth anniversary of the University of Bologna are still coming in. Most of the foreign universities send elegant letters in Latin; some are beautifully engrossed on parchment...