Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...riding horseback, but if carried to excess they are positively detrimental to the nervous system. This is the great trouble with our athletic clubs and college societies. All sorts of feats are indulged in for personal gratification, for medals, for money. How can a student give that cool, deliberative thought to his books while his mind is fevered with the excitement of the coming regatta, or his dreams are disturbed by visions of victory is the next day's base-ball game? The Hemenway system, as practiced at Harvard, is being successfully introduced in many of the colleges...
...Executive Committees of the different Athletic Associations, held Feb. 25th, it was decided to publish the following petition, which was handed in to the Faculty at their last meeting. This petition was not published at the time because the Faculty wished to keep the affair quiet, and it was thought best, in order to gain the desired end, to work with the Faculty as far as possible; but seeing that such a course would to accomplish the wished for result it has been determined to make the petition known to the whole body of students. This petition was written very...
...thought that athletics at Cornell will be compulsory only with the freshman class...
Prospects for the coming baseball season at Princeton are excellent. It is thought that the honors will fall to Princeton this spring...
...were eligible for admission there," but, thank God! there's one thing in New York that money can't buy. And I have no doubt that the existence of such a club has caused many successful men to regret their lack of college advantages who otherwise would not have thought of it and who will guard against a similar loss to their sons. A millionaire may speak contemptuously of "them blanked literary fellows," but when he realizes that all his wealth cannot win an entrance into a rich and popular club without first securing a college diploma, he is likely...