Word: distress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...upon them that the hardest work in athletics falls. Very few promising men appear in athletics after the freshman year. Thus the preparatory schools are in reality the test of our weakness, or our strength. It is to them that we should turn our attention to alleviate our present distress. This spring should witness a greater number of contests between our freshmen and second nines, and the various school teams. If the school teams could be made to feel that the eyes of the Harvard management of athletics were on them, there would be an increase of vigor...
...gentlemen who gallantly moved to "extend the hospitalities of the room to the upper classmen." Whenever the interest seemed to flag several gentleman were kind enough to add fuel to the fire by moving to adjourn, and the fire blazed up, much to the amusement of all and the distress of the presiding officer...
...ants in each hill cooperate in labor; but their sympathy does not extend to ants of other hills. The sympathy for the species is the next step in development. This is best seen among domestic animals in the pig of the southern forests, where a cry of distress from one of them calls hundreds of others to his assistance. The highest development of sympathy is seen in the monkey. Then comes the lower man. From them to the higher man the development is marvelous, introducing paternal love, love of the tribe, love of the Creator, (which in the lower...
...there or thereabouts, he can never get at it. A volley from the shoulder invariably sets the ball 'bouncing,' rendering it possible of return (although otherwise well placed) by an active receiver. I should recommend our players to take pains to acquire the low volley. Players on this side distress themselves too much in serving, and often tiring themselves out, and weakening their returns. The service is becoming less important in the single game every day, and a great number of the best players invariably give their opponents the service in preference to serving themselves. Nine cases...
...point-that even students need to be kept above a certain temperature if the interest is to be maintained. It has been all along a crying shame that the chapel has not been properly warmed on cold mornings and as a result of this neglect, there has been much distress of mind and body as well as some vigorous language. We trust that the authorities will soon come to perceive that compulsory chapel and chilled congregations are not necessarily connected and that until we are allowed to follow our own dictates in the former matter, we will heartily appreciate...