Word: weak
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college men seldom, if ever, comes from the athletic set, but from those who have the least to do with athletics. We think it would be difficult to point out any moral evil that men receive from legitimate professional training. It is true that a few foolish and weak men have been persuaded to enter the professional arena, but that is no reason why the hundreds who do not should suffer for the faults of the very few. Men who are not able to resist the fascinating wiles of the ungentlemanly professional trainer, are not worth looking after...
...junior better than that of the sophomore, and of the senior best of all. This average is shown to come from an improvement in the physical condition of the individual student, and not from the dropping out of the course of those who might be too weak to complete...
...batting of the candidates for the freshman nine is deplorably weak...
...answered, that in the opinion of the faculty, the character of professional teachers of mathematics and physics is, as a whole, higher than that of professional baseball players. Suppose that we grant this to be true; does it follow that the students of Harvard College are so weak that their methods and morals would suffer from the little contact they have with men who make ball-playing a business? It might be well for the faculty to turn its attention a little more closely to some other aspects of the moral training of Harvard College and let such slight matters...
...general oxordium to the recently published Inter-Collegiate Athletic Regulations omitted from the telegraphic report is as follows: "The object of physical training is to confirm health, correct morbid tendencies, strengthen weak parts, give a symmetrical muscular development, and secure as far as possible a condition of perfect physical vigor. In order to accomplish these desirable ends, young men are encouraged to take exercise, and to enter into the general practice of athletic sports and games. If, however, the object of physical training be lost sight of, and the desire to win the championship, or to attain the highest degree...