Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subject of Yale and Harvard withdrawing from the league and playing 10 games - five at Yale and five at Harvard - is thought a good scheme in New Haven, and one that would create an extraordinary interest in the sport and be of great financial advantage. The president of the Yale team thought favorably of it, and one prominent athlete is of the opinion that if Harvard was similarly inclined, Yale would almost unanimously vote to join her. - Boston Herald...
...followed Harvard's stern in for seven successive years, had done it all with our backs and arms. 'And you didn't even use your legs much, either,' he added, with a smile. He told me that he didn't favor giants for the boat, though he thought that had Bacon's great crew of giants in '65 known how to row the new stroke their performance would have been marvellous. A sixteenth-of-an inch wire, he said, was stronger than an inch-and-a-half rope, meaning that the texture and not the size of muscle...
...last "Harvard Monthly": "It is rather surprising that our students have done so little, while our professors have done so much, for the school. The example of the students of the University of Pennsylvania should rouse us to do something. A Greek play, perhaps, is not to be thought of. Our genius at present does not seem to be of the Hellenic or histrionic kind Among us, as elsewhere, music is the dominant art. It has been suggested that the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality give a concert in aid of the school." Now that this suggestion has been practically...
...association down to a triangular one, composed of the three leading base-ball colleges, was attractive. It gave promise of more interesting games, larger gate receipts, and a raising of the standard of the game generally. This feeling did not last until the mass meeting, however. The more men thought over the matter, the greater grew the obstacles. To be sure, several men who had been in base ball and foot-ball conventions (Captains Camp, Walden, Terry, Richards, Peters and Corwin) opposed the plan strongly on the ground that Yale would be one in three. But the cause...
...almost unanimous sentiment was expressed against forming a triangular league with Princeton and Harvard; but a new league, leaving out Dartmouth, Brown and Amherst, seemed to find many adherents. After an animated discussion, it was voted to allow the base-ball management to join any league it thought best, except the one with Princeton and Harvard. It seems most likely that the managers will favor Williams against Columbia in a league of four clubs, while the sentiment of Harvard and Princeton in favor of Columbia will doubtless cause a compromise. It is not likely that any decision will be reached...