Word: sports
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...President Eliot's annual report, the remarks on the conduct of intercollegiate sports, though brief, are full of valuable suggestions. After pointing out "the evils of overtraining and excessive exertion" and the defects in the management of sports and their remedies, the President says: "It must be perceived and admitted that training which goes beyond pleasurable exercise is worse than useless, and that so-called sports which require a dull and dreaded routine of hardships and suffering in preparation for a few exciting crises, are not worth what they cost. They pervert even courage and self-sacrifice, because these high...
...reported from New Haven yesterday that since Harvard and Yale had failed to reach an agreement in regard to a boat race next spring, and as Harvard had refused to meet Yale in one branch of sport without the others, the proposed renewal of athletic relations between the two universities has been given...
...council of the University Athletic Club of New York, which has charge of the annual Yale-Princeton football game, met yesterday and decided that the holding of the game in New York was injurious to amateur sport...
...undergraduates should appreciate what a precedent these older members of the track team have made for them-a precedent of victories not equalled in any other sport at Harvard, and they should do all in their power to get back again into the position that was formerly occupied by the Harvard Track Team. That the graduates are ready to do all they can to aid in this endeavor and that their interest is not lacking, will be shown by the presence of many of them, some coming from a distance, at the meeting on Tuesday evening. Let the undergraduates...
...putting 16 pound shot, running high jump. Other events were to take place but had to be postponed on account of darkness. It is hoped that by these games interest in track games may be increased so that Princeton may regain her former good name in that branch of sport...