Word: sporting
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...clock, P. M., and at 3.30 o'clock P.M. there are to be running and walking races, in which Messrs. Herrick and Wendell, of the H. A. A., will probably compete. A number of Harvard men also are entered in the Tennis Tournament, and the afternoon's sport will probably prove very entertaining. Mr. Wright deserves the heartiest support of the College men for the careful manner in which he fulfilled his duties as coach of our last year's cricket team, and we hope that the number of College representatives to-morrow at Beacon Park will prove...
WATCHMAN. Well planned, well done! You 've had your little sport...
...eyes of any one who wanders by the banks of Lake Waban cannot fail to be attracted by the towers of Wellesley College. Mine were, when, after a rather unsuccessful afternoon's sport in the pretty pond, - whose waters were stocked with black bass at about the same time that its shores were stocked with pretty girls - I walked along its wooded banks...
Every one recognizes that the most pleasing feature of our athletic sports is that they are the work of amateurs, and it may be predicted that wherever the professional element creeps in, their enthusiasm and interest will die out. A professional almost invariably becomes the tool of pool-makers and rowdies, and even under the most favorable circumstances he has great difficulty in keeping his integrity above suspicion. The amateur, on the other hand, is free from these annoyances; he is supposed to enter into athletics from a gentlemanly desire to excel in them, and he commands the interest...
...some people have queer ideas of what constitutes holiday recreation. A Harvard student from Yucatan went to spend his vacation in his native equatorial latitudes, and passed the entire time in fighting in one of the periodical revolutions indulged in by his countrymen. Refreshed and invigorated by this delightful sport, he returned in due course to pursue his peaceful studies at Cambridge...