Word: sports
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...invitation of Brown University a meeting of representatives of the leading eastern universities will soon be held in Providence to consider the various phases of sport in their relation to colleges. The conference will have no binding effect upon the universities represented, but the opinions expressed and the general conclusions reached will, it is hoped, react in favor of a uniformity of regulations governing college athletics in the East. Summer baseball is understood to be one of the questions which will be considered...
...great weakness of Harvard Athletics, a weakness which extends through every department of sport, and indeed through the whole of the less serious side of the University life, is an utter lack of permanent organization. The policy of the Faculty and the other University officials is to leave the regulation of athletics and of social questions so far as possible to the undergraduates themselves. The Athletic Committee's function is not to guide and develop, but to restrain. Its work is in a sense purely negative. In many respects this policy of non-interference is wise...
SKATING is good, but you want a pair of good heavy shoes to enjoy it. Go to Newman's and see the black calf or the tan shoe made especially for this sport. Price in black or tan $3.00 to $6.00. Don't miss...
...athlete in the best sense of the word, he loved sport for sport's sake alone. In football, strong and alert, he was effective without being rough. As oarsman he was persistent, determined, powerful. Always to be trusted, his spirit never flagged, his courage never faltered. He was tried often and never found wanting. His character was as sturdy as his body...
...LAND AND WATER, The Authority on American Amateur Sport." Leading article in December number by W. H. Rand, Harvard '98. Other articles on the National Horse Show, Training for the Half and Mile Run, etc. Also editorials on various athletic topics. Single copies for sale and subscriptions received at Memorial Hall News Stand. Single copies 10 cents...