Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...dual games with Yale, her prospects next Saturday are made less bright by the entry, from smaller colleges with weak teams, of individual athletes of unusual ability, who will take away many points in which Harvard is especially strong. The effect of such entries will be the worst in the dashes and the quarter-mile. Wefers, of Georgetown, will run in the dashes, and Burke will run in the quarter for Boston University. Harvard will also suffer from the absence of Hoyt, not only losing a probable five points, but leaving these points to be divided among its most formidable...
Harvard was again defeated yesterday and this time in about as exciting and hotly contested a game as has been seen on Holmes Field for several years. The worst part of this defeat was that it was absolutely unnecessary, and was due entirely to the most childish of playing at critical points. For seven innings both nines played a brilliant game, and during this time Harvard held the lead by one run. In the eighth inning the team gave an exhibition of the most atrocious playing that has been seen in Cambridge this year, and seven runs were allowed principally...
Vedism is a pure nature religion. Its gods are natural forces deified. But this simple religion degenerated into Brahamanism a religion of priests, of the worst form which became no longer vital with the people. A system of religious orders arose regulated by the most strenuous caste laws. In these orders there were four periods; that of the religious student; the householder; the forest hermit; and the wandering beggar. Of these orders the most important were the dualistic Sankhya philosophy, and the monistic, pantheistic Vedanta which recognized one supreme being in the universe of which every man's soul...
...classical writers are even more unsatisfactory in their allusions relating to the times before the Macedonian conquest. Fable is at its worst here. Thus in Pliny there is an absurd account of the gold-hunting of the Bactrians. The works of Herodotus, Diodorus, and Strabo contain numerous legends regarding the production of the precious metals. But the conquest of Persia by Alexander, laying open the vast treasure houses of Susa, Persepolis and Ecbatana afforded something like a measure of the metallic wealth which had been amassed through many centuries. In that early time this wealth amounted to hundreds of millions...
...bona fide student, it is no objection to his eligibility to play on his college team that he has played on a professional team for money. It would be needless to point out how easily the admission of such a principle would afford a cover for corruption of the worst sort. The experience of sportsmen the world over is that the only safe rule is that which precludes the possibility of a man's engaging in athletics for pecuniary profit and still retaining his amateur standing, even though it may work hard in some cases against men who are undoubtedly...