Word: whose
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shabby and almost coarse. The students defend their institution as one of the smaller colleges which has struggled bravely against poverty, has educated men who have taken prominent places in public and private life, and has inculcated and continues to teach sound learning and pure morality. The students whose rough exteriors have been referred to are often the most deserving and ambitious, and in after life they seldom fail to honor their Alma Master. Dartmouth College needs no other or better defence than the remarkable oration of Daniel Webster, spoken years ago, in the celebrated case before the Supreme Court...
...looking at the question from a sanitary point of view, it seems difficult to imagine any more dangerous practice, than to intrust numbers of young men animated by a spirit of strong rivalry, with the preparation for athletic contests, without the constant supervision of regular training masters, all of whose work could not possibly be performed by any director of physical culture, however able and energetic...
Either the committee which it is proposed to form would be an unmeaning nonentity, having little or no power, or it would be possessed of powers whose exercise could not but be detrimental to all interest in athletics on the part of the students...
...should probably be prevented, by this rule, from playing some games with distant colleges, whose teams we could meet on grounds mid-way between both colleges. Deciding games, played on neutral grounds, would be contested under conditions more equal to both sides, and much time might be saved by shortening the distance to be traveled. Again, the grounds of some colleges-Brown University, for instance-are very poor, and we can see no objection to the use of other grounds near at hand, when available...
...find this resolution, like number five, objectionable, as dealing with details which might better be left to the students or to their advisers, the graduate committee of the graduate committee of the boat-club, whose high standing and long experience in rowing, better fit them to decide all such matters...