Word: banishment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...better start could possibly have been made in the track athletic season than the enthusiastic meeting that was held in Lower Massachusetts last evening. The tone of the meeting was one which should banish the last remnant of that intolerable cant of "Harvard indifference." Harvard's record in track athletics is a splendid one, in spite of recent defeats, and the whole-hearted applause with which those who have helped to make that record were received last night showed that the men now in college upon whom the responsibility for keeping up the record rests, will do their duty...
...Higginson was warmly welcomed. He said that in contradiction to the popular theory in regard to athletics, it seemed as if they had tended rather to produce than to banish competitions of other kinds. Competition, he thought, was always the method in which the activities of man were accustomed to express themselves. He noted humorously the difference in the character of the competitions of chivalry and those of modern days. Brutality had been more and more eliminated from contests, and he felt that no passage of arms could be more gentle than such as the audience had assembled to witness...
...glorious art and commerce banish wrong...