Word: sports
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gentleman who found the lack of singing at Wednesday's practice so grievous an omission, must have somewhat perverted ideas on the game of football. The question resolves itself into this: whether we wish to go to Soldiers Field on Saturday, to see an exhibition of manly sport, or to attend a musical festival. If the visitors from New Haven deem it a good opportunity to display their vocal talent, is that necessarily a reason why we should do likewise? Let us rather wait until the end of the game, and then, if the result has justified...
...have special seats for themselves and their immediate families, but the privilege should extend no further. It is an abuse to treat their friends among graduates and undergraduates as a privileged class, yet their friends put very great pressure upon them for special seats. The whole spirit of good sport rests upon equal opportunities to all, both in playing the game and seeing it. Certainly, any system is a viscious one which deprives the undergraduates of their legitimate right to see the games under the most favorable conditions...
...number of the Monthly which came out yesterday begins with a most interesting article by Professor Hollis on "The Moral Aspect of College Sports." "The politics, the heavy physical strain, and the distractions of certain sports seem to outweigh, in many minds," says Professor Hollis in this article, "the positive good that springs from them. This prejudice is, doubtless, based upon the abuses of ten or fifteen years back, when athletics had run mad. Things have changed, however, and the old influences have disappeared. Many practices once thought legitimate have been given up as leading to bad sport, and college...
...answer to an attack on athletics before the Mass. Schoolmasters' Club last Saturday, Professor A. B. Hart spoke informally on behalf of athletics. He characterized college and school sports as a great force making for righteousness and said that training was a moral safeguard. Harvard's intellectual and moral standard's are higher today than they were twenty years ago which would not be true were athletics injurious. Athletic sport makes the student stand forth...
...evening the grounds will be finely illuminated and there will be singing by American and German clubs and varied gymnastic exhibitions. Fine sport is promised in the water events, including as they do, tub-racing, tilting, riding...