Word: brawn
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...trouble, if any this year, has not been with the system but with the material offered. While plenty of fairly good men have been develped, and material abounds for short distance crews, there is undeniably a lack of first-class 'Varsity oars; men of enough brawn and stamina and skill to stand four mile racing...
...function of the merchant should be, not to make money, but to serve his fellows by furnishing them the necessaries of life. Every transaction is to be measured by this test. The only way in which a self-respecting man can acquire property is through his brain or his brawn. The desire to get something for nothing is in itself dishonest...
...talents than athletics. Why should our representatives in these events not share in the glory of champions in the University, and more general interest on the part of students meet the growing interest of the public in the contests where for the time being brain is as important as brawn...
...intellect, but through the patronage of Harvard athletes. The object of college training is not to turn out Kilrains and Sullivans, but to sharpen the intellect and broaden the man. There was a day when the plumes of the knight adorned the cap that crowned the strongest knots of brawn, but that was an age coeval with bull-fights and duels. No person with refined sensibilities can look upon a modern game of foot-ball, with all its cruelly, and feel that it is in keeping with our civilization...
...from the estate of Mrs. Pastora B. Humphrey is to found the Henry B. Humphrey Fund, the income to be used for Scholarships. Subscriptions amounting to $3,063 have been received through Henry M. Spelman to found the George William Sawin Fund. $10,000 from the estate of William Brawn Spooner is an unrestricted bequest to the Divinity School. Subscriptions paid to Aug. 1st, '91, towards a fund to be called the Joseph Lovering Fund for Physical Research, in recognition of Prof. Lovering's life-long devotion to Physical Science, amounted to $7,720. The income is to be spent...