Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great variety of athletic sports flourish at the University and are pursued with enthusiasm. President Eliot believes that the best way to raise the standard of the athletic contests is to reduce the number of competitions...
...find sentiments expressed with which we cannot entirely agree. Admitting that "foot-ball, base-ball, and rowing are liable to abuses." yet we cannot see that these abuses are altogether of the kind President Eliot mentions. Extravagant expenditure and betting are, to be sure, abuses which exist and flourish abnormally. Our position in regard to them has been taken for some time, as every one knows. But is the interruption of college work a very material one? Is there, in and among our athletic teams, such a spirit of "trickery"? Or are "hysterical demonstrations of the college public over successful...
...library, herbarium and observatory are shown to be in excellent condition. Of the summer courses, the report says that they have been serviceable to teachers and schools, and have helped to introduce into the secondary schools a rational teaching of science. The great variety of athletic sports which flourish at the university seems to the president to be "useful to the general end of cultivating bodily strength and skill and assuring physical health." Commenting further on athletics, he says...
...will ever make its appearance again as a potent factor in Harvard life. The system of compensation which has been in vogue here for some time past was as abnormal a system as could well be conceived. How it was possible for it to grow up and flourish in the rank luxuriance it enjoyed perhaps will remain a mystery forever; for it is hard to conceive of any cause which could logically bring about a result so pernicious. We shall think little of that in the future when the type of man who received distinction here for his ability...
...believe that our correspondent possesses this insight. If a year ago the seeds of the evil which is now being reaped were sown, it is the oversight not the complicity of the CRIMSON which is to blame, that those seeds were allowed to flourish unheeded. It is all the more unfortunate that to-day the element of fair dealing and manliness in Cambridge is compelled to fight its battle with this evil which now has had a year wherein to fasten its grip upon that fair reputation for which in time past Harvard was known and respected everywhere...