Word: hardness
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...given to the classics in a liberal education. This many are ready to admit. But that the common ground of studies prior to the college course should be altogether broken up, that all educated men are to be marked out as specialists even from their cradles, is a thing hard to receive...
...Columbia freshman crew is in hard training, being the only crew which rows daily on the machines in their gymnasium. '87 men take notice...
...always seemed to me that competition is the very coundation upon which all athletics rest. Any thrust which diminishes competition will diminish in exact ratio the amount of interest taken in our sports, and as a direct result the amount of exercise taken by our undergraduates. We hardly like to realize this perhaps, but it is a fact too important to overlook and too evident to contradict. Twenty years ago the students of Harvard College took practically no exercise in comparison with today. The greater majority of our sports have sprung up since then. Foot-ball, base-ball, lacrosse, tennis...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON. -I should like to inquire about what may be called the constitutionality of an act of one of the instructors. The gentleman in question is a hard marker, and put on the examination paper questions purposely indefinite. Not satisfied with this, he felt called upon to warn not only those who did not pass the examination, but many who did. This fountain head of justice did not stop here. He sent official communications to the families of those students who had failed to attain a certain mark above 40 per cent. Is this not virtually raising...
...readers know, there is a vast body of learning in existence, but as yet no common agreement. Assuming that the word is here used roughly to de note any one who is not undergraduate, but who rows or plays ball as a matter of business, it seems rather hard that a college nine or crew should not have a right to get themselves coached by such a man. The objection mentioned in the resolution is that the crew or nine with a professional coach would have an advantage over crews and nines having no coach; that, therefore, professionals would...