Word: bet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interest in athletics by giving glowing accounts of all games. The editors are even ready to have a close game of base ball or of foot ball reported, as they are well aware of the likes and dislikes of their readers. This "abnormal interest" in athletic contests brings about betting, a "sign of a low state of ideals." Betting in college is a great evil as men who cannot afford to bet are sorely tempted by the example of those who can afford...
Another point highly censured and rightly so, is that men on Jarvis last Saturday paraded up and down in front of the benches, their hands full of money and invited or rather taunted men to bet. Betting is an evil inseparable from college as much as professional athletics, but that it should be carried on in so open and disgraceful a manner, shows clearly that professionalism is fast tainting the whole structure of intercollegiate contests...
...book is divided into five parts: Fair Harvard, Life, Love, Youth and Fate, containing poems ranging all the way from topical to sentimental, descriptive to despairing, Part I. is preceded by Dr. Holmes' merry poem, "How the Old Horse Won the Bet," dedicated to the "Advocate" ten years ago, and now reprinted for the first time. This alone would make the book valuable in itself, were it not already made doubly so by a verse of the lamented Loring, who "always mourned and always honored," still keeps his renown as bright as at his untimely death...
84To let for the next college year, three desirable rooms on one floor, adjacent to bath-room. Will bet let (furnished or unfurnished) either to a party or separately. Apply at 13 Kirkland place...
...George E. Woodberry, C. A. Prince, William G. Peckham, E. D. Hawkins, Edward Hale. E. A. Hibbard, H. W. Hardon. T. L. Frothingham, T. T. Baldwin, C. O. Brewster, and others. The book includes Dr. Peabody's preface, Dr. O. W. Holmes' poem. "How the Old Horse Won the Bet," dedicated to the editors of the Harvard Advocate, and three verses by Frederick W. Loring, to college comrades...