Word: branches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Johns Hopkins University every year twenty members of the graduating class are chosen as Fellows and remain to pursue a course of study in some branch in which they have shown themselves proficient. They hold an intermediate position between the faculty and the students, occasionally giving lectures...
Track athletics, strange to say, have taken a temporary boom, in view of the fact that the management have secured the huge skating rink for practice. The enthusiasts in this branch of sport, we are sorry to record, are mighty scarce in Princeton. Our record has degenerated, until now we are at the very bottom of the list of colleges. This fact, in addition to the cold water thrown on field sports by the supporters of base-ball and lacrosse, makes doubly difficult the effort to revivify the interest in the sport. We have no men of great promise...
...hope yet to see the day when the fullest knowledge of any branch can be gained right here in our country, and pilgrimage to foreign resorts of study will no longer be necessary. But concentration of money and energy upon a few or even one of our institutions can alone bring about this result...
...editorial of yesterday we urged upon our readers the necessity for coming out more strongly with their subscriptions. Now there is one branch of athletics at Harvard which at present stands in great need of support from members of the university. We refer to cricket. As we have stated before in these columns, the association is obliged to procure new grounds this year by hook or by crook. Such grounds they already have in view, and they are likely to remain in view unless substantial support is received, and that before long The officers of the association have labored diligently...
...desiring to make use of it. After a spin on the river, hot and cold water and a warm room in which to dress are furnished. No hardships have to be undergone, no privations suffered, and, in fact, nothing remains to add attraction to this deservedly proper branch of athletics. But how different things were a score and a half years ago! Then boating was in its infancy at Harvard, and only a few men took any interest...