Word: tend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...themselves should receive a more liberal support throughout the college than can fairly be said to be accorded them at present. Our winter athletic meetings were certainly a success. But our correspondent's description of the enthusiasm and energy displayed at Columbia in the branch of general athletics will tend to show that the struggle for inter-collegiate honors has by no means been abandoned elsewhere ; rather that it is being pursued with renewed ardor. The contest this year gives promise of being very exciting...
...time since I addressed a communication to your paper in which I advocated the introduction of beer and ale at Memorial Hall. In your editorial of yesterday I see that you do not agree with me, and are fearful lest some case of excessive drinking should occur which would tend to injure Harvard in the opinion of outsiders. You say that a man could restrain his desire for drinking until he had crossed the yard to go to Adam's or Carl's. But the same thing could be said of the entire list of extras...
...more prosperous than is even hoped for by the gentlemen who have the matter in hand. In the very nature of its surroundings and purposes, the school offers a most attractive study-home for earnest scholars, while the learning of the men who will conduct it will in itself tend to invite the constantly increasing number of earnest lovers of the classics...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: There are many men besides the writer who would be very glad to see such a society as the Total Abstinence Society go into operation. The plan proposed is an excellent one and should meet the hearty cooperation of all the students. It will tend to increase the general culture of Harvard; although much in advance in this moral culture of other colleges, still there is room for improvement in this respect. Respectfully...
...subject of Dr. Sargent's lecture yesterday was "How to Develop the Chest." He began by giving statistics of the death proportion from consumption and tubercular diseases, arising from an imperfect development of the lungs and heart. Such affections are often inherited, or result from occupations and circumstances which tend to produce them. Consumption is, however, easy to prevent by a course of physical exercise. In Harvard, only one man out of three has a perfect chest, the principal imperfections being a flatness on the upper part and depression at the base of the breast bone, compression of the sides...