Word: tending
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conference committee appointed before the close of the last term to investigate the disagreements between the president and fellows, and the overseers was presented by the president in the form of a vote which had been passed by the fellows, in which concessions on both sides will, tend toward the solution of a difficult problem. The following is the vote as passed...
...never adopted. That is the issuing of tickets in packages or coupons which could be sold at reduced rates. This would obviate the great nuisance of carrying change in one's tennis suit. The Tennis Association is for the benefit of the students, and any scheme which may tend to their convenience without too much trouble should not be utterly disregarded...
...Whereas, In the opinion of this club to prohibit undergraduates from taking part in intercollegiate athletics would not tend to correct the alleged abuses, but would be an unwise step, detrimental to the best interests of the undergraduates and the college; and that such abuses, if they exist, are not likely to be cured simply by confining the contests to the New England States...
...numerous moral and physical abuses to which, it is said, the others are subject. I mean tennis. It is the most popular, if we may judge by the number who take exercise in the various games It is not brutal, or dangerous; nor does the excitement of the contest tend to cause participants or spectators "to resort to methods which their cooler judgment would condemn." Furthermore, this game gives ample opportunity for developing sound bodies, without drawing too much on the store of energy needed primarily for brain work. Tennis does not tend "to divide the students into two classes...
...surely time for the base-ball management to make arrangements for the annual "scrub" matches, as suggested by our correspondent of yesterday. These matches are a source of pleasure to many undergraduates, and tend to enlarge the field of general athletics. The CRIMSON hopes to be able to put a nine into the field as usual, and means to work for the championship with might and mian. The pen is our accustomed weapon, but we are learning to handle bat and ball as well. But seriously, these games should be arranged, and we hope the managers of the base-ball...