Word: excellent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Amherst hopes to excel Harvard in the excellence of her gymnasium...
...athletics gives opportunity for the development of certain qualities of mind and character not all provided for in the college curriculum. but qualities nevertheless quite as essential to true success in life as ripe scholarship or literary culture. Courage, resolution, and perseverance are required in all the men who excel in athletic sports. The faculty for organization, executive power, the qualities which enable men to control and lead other men, and again those other qualities by which men yield faithful obedience to recognized authority, are all called into action in every boat race, in every ball contest, and through...
...nine to compete with nines of other colleges without good instruction, but we have done the same thing ourselves with regard to foot-ball. We must all of us, faculty and students, understand, once for all, that it is just as impossible for the average man to excel in athletics without instruction, as it would be for him to excel in his studies without instruction; and that it is just as absurd to expect an uncoached crew, nine, foot-ball, lacrosse or cricket team from Harvard to beat a well coached team of another college, as it would...
...Druids of Baltimore were a "Dark Horse" in the Oelrich Cup tournament, and though a young organization, promise soon to excel in the game...
...strongly of that military arrogance and self-sufficiency for which West Point has always been notorious. "They are thoroughly convinced," they say, "that the methods of instruction and the thoroughness of the teaching of the various parts of the curriculum of the military academy are not equalled, certainly not excelled, by any of the institutions visited by them. In several cases they found that standard scientific subjects were taught without the use of any text-books whatever, and the students learned only what little they could retain from short lectures on the subject. At other places there seemed...