Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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What, then, do we gain by taking such a roundabout approach to our professional work? The answer is twofold...
Without desiring to be impertinently suggestive to those who know their duty, it would perhaps be a good thing as the mid-years approach, to draw up a list of the different characteristics of that season that seem to need a remedy. There will be no use grumbling after the occasion has passed, and the best time for mentioning the subject is just before the preparations are made by the authorities...
...Yale Glee Club are said to have lost money by their last trip. Bad weather and consequently small houses greeted them. In consequence of the near approach of Lent, all sorts of entertainments were in full swing each night of their singing. The houses at Boston and Brooklyn, however, were very large and enthusiastic...
...members of the crews. There is danger that our rowing interests here at home may fall under their own weight. Every one remarked the success in every desirable particular which attended the scratch races last fall. Let not the class races depart too far from that one extreme, and approach the other, where the exactions may be equal to those at tending a race with Yale or Columbia. To set the race early, at least four weeks before the final examinations begin, is the least the Boat Club should do. Rivalry between the classes is sure, even then, to secure...
These various restrictive measures have on the whole commended themselves to the judgment of the whole body of students and graduates. "When games are made a business they lose a great part of their charm, and college sports cannot approach the professional standard of excellence without claiming the almost exclusive attention of the players, and becoming too severely monotonous and exacting to be thoroughly enjoyable...