Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Whatever may be said of Harvard's tendency to neglect study for the encouragement of athletics, her system of deturs, prizes, scholarships and final honors has by stimulation to overwork caused the death of many a promising student. I was graduated from Harvard nine years ago, and know whereof I speak. The sudden insanity of one of the most promising of recent graduates recalls painful memories of that forcing system which has so long been in vogue at my own university. The leader of my class shortly after entering upon his sophomore work died of brain fever. The brightest light...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I cannot understand why the base-ball management has neglected to take up the excellent suggestion made by one of your correspondents last week, about a petition for the removal of the prohibition on professional practice-games. This neglect is not very complimentary to that management, considering the vital importance of this matter. I fail to see how we can talk about indifference in the University at large when one of our management is so slothful and indifferent...
...made 37 ft. 8 in. Pennypacker of Harvard, 36 ft. 2 1-2 in. Woodruff of Yale 36 ft. 1 in. The first prize was won by Young of the Manhattan Club, with a handicap of 8 ft. 9 in. Hunt, (4 ft. in) was second. Owing to the neglect of the managers to give sufficient information to the handicapper, Hunt of Yale appeared to the programme with a handicap of 10 ft. As soon as the previous performances of the men were ascertained this was changed...
...there is any college team which deserves the hearty support of Harvard College, and which is, instead, shamefully neglected, it is the Lacrosse team. Year after year this team has trained patiently without any encouragement from the college. Year after year it has brought back the championship to Harvard, sometimes all alone in its glory. And what comes of it? Is any celebration arranged in honor of the event? Are the members of the winning team rewarded even with the faintest praise for their exertions and success? Are cups voted them? The CRIMSON devotes half a column to an editorial...
...Lacrosse Association is out of debt, and indeed, under the excellent management of last year, has retained a small surplus. This is then the condition of the Lacrosse Association, and if patience and victory deserve any merit the Harvard Lacrosse Association does, for it has been most patient under neglect, and uniformly victorious in its contests...