Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...specialists enter them. In their case the entire energy of the system has been concentrated on the development of special powers, and every thing else is set aside as useless. This is the great objection to athletic exercises as they are at present conducted. Symmetry of development is never thought of, nor is it ever acquired by exclusive reliance upon any of our popular sports. Indeed, we would venture to select from any group of recognized athletes the oarsmen, the ball-players and the gymnasts, simply from their peculiar muscular development...
...announced by Chinese papers that Mr. Yung Wing, who graduated at Yale and has lived at Hartford until within a year, has, on his return to China, been appointed chief magistrate of the city of Shanghai. People who thought Yung Wing did not amount to much because he never rose to the proud eminence of captain of the Yale base-ball nine, will now see that they were mistaken. - [Philadelphia News...
...Carpenter, in the negative, thought that the old system had done its work and condemned it as tending to make sports exclusive, specialized, scientific and to highly developed in certain directions. If the affirmative wish to defend the old system they must in the end defend "Yale method...
...thought that the Columbia eight to row Harvard next June will consist of J. A. B. Cowles (captain and stroke), H. R. Muller, A. H. Van Sinderen, W. T. Moore, D. B. Porter, D. Reckhardt, W. Wheeler, and H. Fitzgerald, with J. T. Walker, Jr., or H. Dormitzer as coxswain...
...Yale appoint a similar committee to confer with theirs. "Now it has always been the sentiment here," says the News, "that our boating be confined to the under-graduates as much as possible: they row the races, they should have the say. However, out of courtesy, our present committee thought such a committee might be temporarily appointed, but not until there was something for them to confer about, that is not until the challenge had been accepted in the usual manner. And this is certainly reasonable, for why should a lot of men get together to discuss something about which...