Word: generously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much to be regretted. Harvard and Yale squabble for weeks over points of detail in regard to their annual race, and the impression produced upon the public is that each is trying its best to outwit and get the best of the other. Is this the spirit of generous emulation which should characterize gentlemen who engage in athletic sports? College base-ball clubs have been handled by professional trainers, and have obtained their practice by playing professional clubs - something happily put an end to at Harvard...
...speaks of the "maid of the ever twinkling feet," but Byron never could have told about "the nervous movements and demonstrations which indicated the bewitching power of the music to which the Terphsichoreans glided across the floor below." The scene, we are told, "was one from fairy land," with "generous bowls of lemonade" scattered around, (could the ordinary mortal imagine such a fitting drink for fairies as lemonade?) while above this domain of fays hung the Yale crew's shell, which "looked down upon the people below, recalling the time when it had looked upon eelgrass and had felt sadder...
...peanuts by the aforementioned freshman - a parting gift from a fond mother or perhaps a sweetheart, as full of hope and trusting courage the youth set out to win his way in college. Peanuts! how many tender associations cluster round this name! Thoughts of boyish joys, remembrance of generous treats, the hoarded pennies invested with the itinerant vendor - and all the recollections that manhood recalls to mind at the mention of this little word. And this parting gift these ruthless despoilers seized with pitiless bands uttering direful threats, unmindful of the tears and entreaties of this unhappy youth thus left...
...cage there are numerous points of the game which can be properly learned there alone, and these points - throwing and catching especially - are what will give our team their great superiority. The management is very active in promoting improvement in this part of the play, and, with a generous number of candidates, their success seems already insured. Next year, however, they will meet many powerful opponents who will endeavor in every way to wrest our present advantage from us. Let it not be said that, from lack of material or interest, Harvard has suffered this department of her athletics...
...meet with a better support from the college. The concerts, it is true, are not of a popular character, but there certainly should be found a sufficiently large number of lovers and patrons of the best music at Harvard to support such a series as this. Prof. Paine has generously undertaken the financial responsibility for the success of these concerts, and it is no more than fair to ask that the colleges share the expense and relieve him from his responsibility by according a generous patronage to the concerts...