Word: branches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been taken on Brattle street, and the club will soon be in active operation. No matches will be allowed at the rooms, nor is it intended to have a trainer. The idea of the founders is to have a suitable place for those students who are to practice this branch of athletics...
...natural inability to cope with his subject. Some men's minds are so constituted that they find it all but impossible to grasp certain lines of study, and after long and laborious work at some difficult course they find a man who is their inferior in some other branch of work, far ahead of them in marks. The rule is impolitic, as it is a standing invitation to take only such courses as one feel he is reasonably sure of a good grade in. A man who has received high marks for two or three years hardly cares to court...
Last year, a year so fertile in mishaps for us, lacrosse was the only sport in which Harvard maintained her superiority over her rivals. Indeed the lacrosse championship has remained here for three years, and bids fair to remain here still another year, if the college gives this branch of athletics the support which its perseverance deserves...
...this branch of athletics, Harvard has in the past been unexcelled, and we believe would be so now if all the men who are conscious of athletic ability would come out and help on the team. Where a man does his best for the honor of his college, he shows an honorable thing, whether he himself succeed or fail. If every athletic man would come out and work, the standard of our track athletes would certainly be raised. The freshmen are specially urged to enter their class meeting. A good freshman athlete is worth more to the college than those...
...that the college is beginning to swing into its regulated routine of work, it is time for those who have charge of the matter to organize runs for the fall term, and we hope that the freshmen will co-operate with the upper class-men in sustaining a branch of athletics from which so much good is derived...