Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...although the bell was put up perpendicularly with one arm, Rood, in straightening his body, lost his balance and let the ball fall. The terms of the game say nothing about the straightening of the body, but it has been customary to get to an upright position. It is thought, however, that the latter record will stand. The performance was done in public and was testified to by over a dozen witnesses...
...colleges could be induced to look upon athletics with more of the English university spirit of "sport for sport's sake," guided by which training is much less strict and severe and the coach and members of one university crew watch the daily practice of another without the least thought of unfairness, then we believe all would be satisfied with the change. Yet this condition is about what the President's Report suggests as desirable in Harvard athletics...
...somewhat to blame for not taking more notice of the objections to the character of the exercises at our first joint meeting. Such objections were made and were reported to the class through the CRIMSON. Since the objections discussed at this meeting were principally against the seats, our committee thought that it was the safety of the people which that the objections against disagreeable features would not be pressed, but merely recommended...
...such a nature, and, on this ground, to issue a fiat regulating the conduct of the gentlemen who take exception to their opinion. If so, their action in the premises would be comparable to the evidence offered by the sceptic who seeks to deny the fundamental laws of thought. I leave logicians to trace the analogy...
...custom is a bad one. Nor is it any argument to say that former classes have seen nothing wrong in the Tree exercises. Not to speak of the fact that the exercises have grown worse year by year, it is enough to remember that hazing and slavery were thought proper in their...