Word: fear
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshman Entry-Book will be kept open until Saturday morning to allow every opportunity for men to enter. At the present writing only four names appear on its pages, and if '82 do not come to time better, we shall fear that they are on a par with the upper classes in muscular inactivity...
...those who fear that an unreasonable attention will be given to physical exercises and out-of-door sports at the University. Our four months of winter are a natural defence against exaggeration in this direction. It is much to be wished that our hardest-working students should come to believe, and to practise upon the belief, that a sound and vigorous body is in most cases indispensable to success in any active form of intellectual life...
...Monday. The contestants will be drawn in pairs, and the winners of the trials play on until one man remains unbeaten. The place of playing will be written in the entry-book. Umpires and scorer will be appointed later. Those who are interested in Lawn Tennis should not fear to take part in this tournament. Most men are now through their annuals, and this affair is intended to fill up the few dull days before Class Day, and to promote sport...
...sadly fear me lest...
...prize, or have ever taught, pursued, or assisted in the pursuit of athletic exercises of any kind as a means of livelihood; or have ever been employed in or about boats or in manual labor; or be a mechanic, artisan, or laborer." This tells the whole story. The English fear crews like the Watkins Glen, the Nautilus, the Beaverwycks, etc., etc., and have so worded their definition as to exclude these and similar crews from Henley, and restrict the regatta to 'gentlemen' entries, and proves what we said in our last, in regard to the definition, to be true...