Word: think
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...least. The attendance has never been less than four hundred, while the average has been much larger. We extend thanks in behalf of the students to Dr. Peabody and the other preachers to the University, for the time and the attention they have devoted to the meetings. We think also that the efforts of Mr. Locke and the chapel choir should be acknowledged, because much of the attractiveness of the vesper service has been due to the excellence of the music. We hope that the success of the past two years will insure a continuation of this important feature...
...think that the Harvard undergraduates themselves see and regret this tendency and are ready to join hands with the Faculty and graduates to remove it, and also to raise the standard of inter-collegiate athletics, by fostering a sentiment which shall consider victory too dear if purchased at the expense of fair play and courtesy to opponents...
...develop. If the editorial in question was not clear enough in this point, the spirit of the editorial of Saturday's issue was unmistakeable. We quote a few lines: "As a whole the meetings this year have not been up to the standard of former years; not, we think, because of any negligence on the part of the students of the Athletic Association, but rather because of the lack of interest of men in college. The efforts made by the Athletic Association to arouse interest in the weekly contests they arranged, met with feeble responce and were abandoned...
...whole, the meetings this year have not been up to the standard of former years; not, we think, because of any negligence on the part of the stewards of the Athletic Association, but rather because of the lack of interest of men in college. The enthusiasm that was expressed during the football season seems to have exhausted men's energies for any thing else. The efforts made by the Athletic Association to arouse interest in the weekly contests they arranged, met with feeble response and were abandoned. It is this lack of interest that has made the meetings this year...
Society and athletics are distinct interests; they should not clash, but go hand in hand. They are both of the utmost importance to the college, and both should be put on the same plane. We think the time has now come when this equality is no longer a matter of conjecture, but a certainty...