Word: warded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Columbia College is at last to be represented in the baseball arena; meetings to organize a team having been held at the college during the past month. Johnny Ward will coach the team up to the end of May, so it promises to start out well. They have some fine players in the college this year. it is to be hoped that, if the nine be not so successful as anticipated, no such boyish action will be taken as in the case of the Lacrosse club some years ago, which was broken up by the collegians because they failed...
...receive considerable instruction himself in the English stroke of Captain Cook. For this purpose he recently spent a fortnight in Philadelphia under the coaching of Mr. Cook and Mr. Wood, who performed the same service two years ago. At the same time he examined into the methods pursued by Ward in coaching the University of Pennsylvania. He has now an eight in a barge, and the rest practice in a four-oared shell. The season being earlier at New Haven and the water not so ice-bound they are rowing on the water. The men are lighter than last year...
...have been invited to make ten minute speeches, giving reminiscences of Wendell Phillips: Mrs. Elizabeth B. Chace, Theodore D. Weld, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Sewall, Rev. Samuel May, Lucy Stone, William L. Bowditch, John G. Whittier, T. W. Higginson, Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Willim Lloyd Garrison, Jr., Julia Ward Howe, Hon. Albert Palmer, Ednah D. Cheney, H. B. Blackwell, Elizur Wright, Hon. Thomas Russell, Richard P. Hallowell, Chas. W. Slack and George W. Lowther...
...resolutions on the students, the faculty of Harvard College have adopted a policy directly contrary to the one that has been in force so long and with such good effects,-the policy of non-interference. Their action can be looked at as nothing less than a long step back ward in the progress of Harvard toward the ideal university, and what makes this step more unendurable is its absolute uselessness. We have been yielding gradually to the views of the faculty on this point, and have tacitly been granting the necessity of some regulation of athletics. But, to state...
...Fifty years ago, said Henry Ward Beecher, in a recent address on Wendell Phillips, during my college life, I was chosen to debate the question of African colonization, which, just then, was new and fresh. Garrison was just then kindling a brand of fire that never went out until slavery was abolished. Wendell Phillips, a young lawyer, had just entered upon his career. Fortunately, I was assigned to the negative side of the question, and in preparing to speak upon that occasion I prepared my whole life...