Word: branch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...order to bring forward a few facts, obtained by a cursory glance over past college affairs. In making comparisons we have taken the past seven years as our basis, thus giving to Yale all the advantage, since prior to this period Harvard was overwhelmingly victorious over Yale in every branch of athletics...
...freshmen, to learn that at the meeting held for the purpose on Thursday evening, thirty members of '86 signified their intention of competing for a position on their class nine. Included in this number are several men who, at their fitting schools, particularly distinguished themselves in this branch of athletics, and others who, although with but little experience, still have shown remarkable aptitude for the sport. If the meeting Thursday evening, both as regards enthusiasm and in point of numbers, can be taken as an indication of '86's prospects on the ball field, we can say that they...
President White, Professors Tyler, Burbank, Tuttle and Fiske were active in organizing here during the last campaign a branch of the Civil Service Reform Association. They succeeded in giving the old-timers something of a scare, and doubtless contributed to the overwhelming Republican defeat in this country. President White is very much in earnest on the subject of civil service reform...
...Clipper says of last week's hare and hound run: "The meet was on the whole a success, but runs should be held oftener, and thereby develop a branch of athletics in which American amateurs are very weak and deficient when compared with their English cousins...
...have no professional trainer here among us to watch over and direct the movements of our athletes. It is true we have had not quite the need of one that Harvard has, since it is not until recently that we have sent men to Mott Haven. In that branch of athletics careful training is most required. Therefore the professionalism that Harvard has to deplore from that source is not found here. There was this difference, then, in the circumstances of the two colleges, lying in the presence of a professional trainer among students in the one case, and of none...