Word: think
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much time is given to intercollegiate contests, I think no graduate will be found who would not favor reducing the number of games played; and if the expense is too great, all college athletes would favor any practical plan for decreasing it. But absolute prohibition of such contests does not seem the wisest way to bring about these ends...
...more general conclusions that athletics are diverting the students from the object for which they are sent to college, I think, in order not to give an unfair picture, it should be stated that side by side with the increase in athletics, there has been a marked increase in the intellectual activity of the students. Formerly 33 per cent. was the minimum required in each course for a degree, I believe. Now the minimum is 40 per cent., and in addition to that, the student must stand above 65 per cent. in at least one-quarter of his studies...
...other words the Board of Overseers wish to put such restrictions upon us as practically to do away with all contests with outsiders. They think they have found the best way to accomplish this; but if they think that such a scheme will promote the cause of general athletics and materially lessen the evils which they imagine arise from intercollegiate contests, we venture to say they will find they are mistaken. It they wish to reduce Harvard University to the level of a boarding school and treat the students as mere striplings, well and good; but we are inclined...
...played. But, as far as I can make out, all this plan has been given up without more apparent cause than listlessness on the part of the organizers. There are plenty of good players in the University, as can be seen by observing the class teams, and I think that it is a great mistake to let such a good scheme fall through...
...communication published yesterday echoes our sentiments upon the question of playing with professionals. We cannot agree with the ideas advanced by the correspondent of the Advocate, and we think that such an opinion can only be held by men who at best obtain but a superficial view of college life and practices. It is most undeniably false that our nine, in wishing to practice with professional teams, is influenced by a desire to learn "tricks" and unfair points to be employed against Yale and Princeton, unless learning how to play base-ball in a scientific manner can be called...