Word: sports
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...feature, however, of the system, as it has existed for some years past, should be carefully guarded against, especially if the scope of gymnastic training is to expand still further. Work in the gymnasium is too apt to become separated from outdoor sport. It should be a means toward the real end, open air exercise, but it is too often looked upon as itself...
...athletic meeting at the B. A. A. this evening promises to be by far the most interesting event of the season in the way of winter sport. The fact that Harvard is entered in two intercollegiate relay races, and will match her strength in other events with some of the best college athletes in the country, will justify a good representation from Cambridge among the spectators. It is unfortunate that the increased entry-fees should have made the number of Harvard contestants so much smaller than in past years, but that is the more reason why those who are entered...
...athletic conference at which a number of eastern colleges will be represented soon to be held at Providence, is a welcome sign of the growth of a healthy movement toward the correction of athletic evils. The most ardent partisan of intercollegiate sport is forced to admit that under present conditions, abuses do exist, and that they are abuses very difficult to eradicate. The intensity of public interest, and the resulting fierceness of competition form an influence in favor of excess which is almost irresistible...
Princeton has made overtures to Pennsylvania for a series of baseball games, but Pennsylvania before meeting its former rival again, will ask for a five years agreement for meetings in all branches of sport...
...were also glad to see that Yale had still no wish to compete for any general championship, sticking to her natural rival and making no alliance that could endanger the preeminence of this rivalry. To Harvard we are bound by long series of contests in every branch of sport, by the similarity between the two universities in positions and institutions, by the strong ties of alumni friendships and rivalry, and by our own personal friendship with Harvard men gained for the most part by association at the same preparatory schools. All these things mean much, and have been absolute preventatives...