Word: rather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...manly and plucky game they played this year. We have met this evening, he said, not to celebrate an eleven that has played a victorious game, but one that has played a manly game and one that every man may be proud of. He said he would rather see Harvard successful in rowing or on the field than in intellectual labor, better to show four miles of rudder to the New Haven crew than to earn summa cums, and better by far to raise the play away above the orange and black. From the work of the eleven this year...
...perfect, that the early use of tobacco is altogether bad, though it has far less influence in some than in others. In regard to alcohol, German testimony is more conflicting; and beer is still given in the military schools, but there is little doubt that its effect is injurious rather than other wise. Before middle life, at any rate, it should be merely medicine and taken in extreme moderation. In regard to ventilation it may be said that certain recitation rooms in Harvard are very poorly ventilated, worse than the worst in Tewksbury. The Kidder Technology building was erected with...
...teaching," that will compare with the improvement of methods in public school instruction. And the reason for this he finds in the lack of any fundemental law of pedagogy among college professors. College professors are free-lances and when they are successful teachers it is ascribed to their individuality rather than to the correctness of their methods; in consequence the value of their example is lost on their less successful fellow-teachers...
...Princeton's evidence incriminating Harvard's players it seems rather to have been a second thought than otherwise. If Princeton has valid protests to raise against Harvard's team we fail utterly to see why these were not made at the New York convention when our challenged players appeared to answer any charges made against them, It must be remembered that the threat, or perhaps we ought to say the warning, of Princeton's manifesto has not as yet been pointed with any very telling evidence...
...gives the University of Pennsylvania fifth place in the league. Each of the teams have had some of their best players laid up and it was expected that the contest would be closely fought throughout. During the first half, although Pennsylvania fought stubbornly for every inch of ground, Wesleyan rather forced the play and scored a touchdown from which a pretty goal was kicked. During this half, however, Pennsylvania worked the ball down the field and Wesleyan was compelled to touch it down for a safety. This left the score at the end of the first half...