Word: tends
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...College Foot-ball League, in so much that Harvard and Princeton and Princeton and Yale would play together in separate leagues. Then it would be influential towards making foot-ball unpopular here, as Princeton would remain the only college able to compete with Harvard. It would, moreover, tend to intensify the unfriendly feeling already to some extent existing between Harvard and Yale, which is undesirable and not a worthy object to attain. It is surely unworthy of the two acknowledged leaders of American colleges that there should be constant bickering and unpleasantness between them. But it seems to me that...
...horrors, dwindles into insignificance, We venture to assert that nowhere in America has such a brutal and disgraceful performance ever taken place at any of our colleges. The tu-quoque argument will not relieve Americans from any of the blame for the evils of hazing, but it certainly can tend to reduce the magnitude of our offences in the eyes of a stern and unsympathizing public to listen to such accounts as this of the rowdyism of English and Scotch students. Pelting professors with peas and rushing them through a melee is certainly not characteristic of American students, neither...
...benefit of General Butler, and give him many votes. He did not graduate at Harvard, was not born on Beacon street, and does not own a lot in Mt. Auburn; but the story goes that 'he is a brick and made the Southern traitors sick,' and his election might tend to induce the officers of old Harvard to devote themselves to the legitimate duties of their positions, keep out of politics and keep up and maintain the high standard of the college, instead of degrading it with party politics." The attempt "to exert a controlling influence in politics" is, according...
...with these measures, I do not think that I am altogether alone among the students of Harvard College. There are many, I think, who have noticed with regret the growing tendency of our college athletics to approach the standard of professionalism. These new regulations, it seems to me, will tend to check this tendency at Harvard, and if our other colleges join with her in this move, with them also. And if this happens Harvard will not be placed at an unfair disadvantage in her contests with other colleges. But what has seemed to many radically wrong in our sports...
...Sumners. Of course some skeptic will tell of that much-abused indifference, and of the state of college life here, so different from that existing at Yale, but we are almost persuaded that not only would such an institution as a University Club be a certain success, but would tend to create a more fraternal feeling that would in many ways accrue to the common weal of the university, graduates and students...