Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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With such a strong team as Harvard has this spring, it is not likely that she will be required to resort to the defensive game to any great extent. But while the men are practising to strengthen their assaults on goal, it will be well for them to try from time to time a systematic advance of the whole team, neglecting their defence to a certain extent, and using all possible means to strengthen their assault. In the excitement and nervousness of the first few minutes of a game, and with the disadvantage of a strange ground, none...
...recent appointment of new instructors in the Law School, and the assured prospect of new quarters, can not but strengthen the conviction that the authorities are determined to leave no effort undone to place all needful improvements in this somewhat neglected department of the university. There is no reason why the Law School should not occupy as high a position in the estimation of the public, or be as well conducted as the other departments, and the energy displayed by the powers that be to increase the capabilities of the school will certainly have the desired effect of arousing...
...often see a funny phrase in some of our exchanges which we do not understand. "The coeducational members of the college," etc. What are "coeducational members?" How are they different from other students? "Strengthen us, enlighten us, we faint in this obscurity...
...Sargent yesterday began his course of lectures at the gymnasium with "Physical Examinations." He insisted on the necessity of physical training, and then explained in detail his system of physical examinations and measurements, by which he was able to prescribe special exercises for each individual, which would strengthen a man's physique in those points in which he was weak. Different persons needed different treatment, and in our gymnasium are machines of all kinds (principally of the doctor's invention) which are adapted for every physical detail. The doctor gave the weights and measurements of some of our notable athletes...
...with an arrogant and iniquitous South, our own College played no insignificant part. Never did young men go forth more willingly at the call of patriotism than at that time and in that crisis of the nation's fate; and Harvard was not among the last to sustain and strengthen the martyred President of our Republic at his post of danger. It is therefore all the more surprising that last Monday should have passed by with no proper recognition by the College authorities; and we pause to ask if this implied neglect of public and patriotic duties be a wise...