Word: never
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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Declared you never were hard...
HARVARD indifference to athletics - it belongs strictly to Harvard, as it never appears in other colleges - we have often discussed, because it is one of our most dangerous opponents in intercollegiate contests. We wish again to warn the members of the University against this insidious foe, which this year is on a greater increase than ever before. The Yale News states that Harvard is straining every nerve for victory in the spring. This is true so far as it concerns the men who are now training for the "'Varsity" and Nine, but it is not true of those outside...
...resources on that race; and this policy has now hardened into a fixed tradition. Hence, whatever talk may be raised to the contrary by a minority of "fresh" and shortsighted enthusiasts, the experienced and sagacious majority can always be depended on to insist that the Freshmen of Yale shall never again be allowed to waste their muscle and money in meaningless and uninteresting rowing contests with the Freshmen of other colleges...
...find any pecuniary advantage in guaranteeing proper management for such an exceedingly costly affair as the annual Harvard-Yale race in its present form. The keeping of a clear course on the Thames, at the first trial in 1878, was an unprecedented achievement, implying an amount of preliminary labor never before given to any boat-race arrangements in the United States; and that the running down of the press boat on that occasion (by the only man afloat who refused to obey the managers' regulations) failed to result in loss of life was little less than a miracle. Equally astonishing...
...abuse the superlative degree, I am surely within the limits of moderation in saying that the unanimity and unreservedness of the praise bestowed by the newspaper press, for three successive seasons, on the New London managers, is something entirely singular and unique in American aquatic annals. That praise would never have been won, however, had not those managers accepted at the outset, as a vital rule for their guidance, the theory that, in a college rowing contest on the Thames, a single race between two crews is the most that may be safely attempted within the limits of a single...