Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Corporation paid $15,000 for the old Carey Building and it was decided to devote the whole of this sum to the erection of a new cage on Soldiers Field. It was thought at the same time that Mr. Carey's name should continue in connection with Harvard athletics and accordingly the Athletic Committee petitioned the Corporation for permission to call the new cage the Carey Building. This was readily granted and it was decided to give the old Carey Building some other name agreeable to the Carey family. When the new cage is completed a tablet in memory...
...game with Amherst proved decidedly uninteresting. The score was 18 to 0 in favor of Yale. Three days later, however, the game which Yale won from Williams 32 to 0, showed great improvement in the teamwork of the eleven. In comparing the Yale and Harvard teams, the Williams men thought that Yale's play was far more snappy, but her defence was much weaker. The work against Newton A. A. the following Saturday was most discouraging, even considering the number of substitutes that went into the game. The ends and tackles showed themselves to be the weakest parts...
...been taken ill with typhoid fever and his continued weakness necessitated the appointment of a temporary captain in his stead. Benjamin, last year's halfback, accordingly took charge of the men. Of the '96 eleven only Rodgers, Benjamin, Chadwick, Chamberlin, Conner and Hine returned this fall, and it was thought that only four of these men would be able to play. There was a good deal of very raw material to work upon but no stars and no men who stood out in the beginning as well adapted for particular positions. The problem then was to develop a team...
...third regular debate of the club was held last evening on the subject: "Resolved, That capital punishment shall be abolished." The speaking was, on the whole, energetic, and showed careful thought and preparation...
...occupy all the seats, and every time an individual hands over his tickets to a speculator, or to a stranger, he is defrauding other college men of rights which he ought to protect. It is useless, though, to discuss that point further. Men who give the matter any thought at all can see that if they sign for tickets and then pass them over to anybody except their friends they put themselves in a position to be called pretty hard names. The chance to make money is a temptation, undoubtedly, but we hope that none will succumb...