Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...This cannot be done unless more men go out and practice. As it is at present there are scarcely more candidates than there are places to be filled. Eighty-nine should wake up and furnish a dozen or so more men to learn this attractive game and thus properly strengthen the twelve, and also furnish useful training for men who wish to play foot-ball in the autumn. Lacrosse and foot ball go hand in hand in the style of play and faculties called into use. If Harvard men realized this and made the players of one game work into...
...displayed; there is good reason for gratification. Our teams thus far have done well; and they have got to continue doing well if they are to succeed against the strong rivals that they must meet sooner or later. Every game in practice is an opportunity for a team to strengthen itself for future contests, and as much should be made of it as possible. The practice games, moreover, though of minor interest, are not of minor importance. All who can should attend them, and by their presence show an interest in the work that is done, and by their support...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - It must have struck some of the auditors of Mr. Lodge on Tuesday night that he of all men was least capable of giving conscientious advice upon political life for young men; and his semi-apologetic utterances on that evening tended to strengthen that belief. Mr. Lodge, brilliant and able man as he is, was unable to follow what he calls the "path of principle," when brought face to face with it two years ago. An earnest opponent of Mr. Blaine, he went to Chicago avowedly to oppose that gentleman's methods and personality...
...good suggestion has recently been made in regard to a course in Contemporaneous History. But would it not be wise to strengthen our insufficient English department before attention is turned to bettering our already satisfactory and creditable department of History...
...their children to school where protestant religious forms are observed, and vice versa. The plan of having separate religious exercises for the different factions in the schools does not commend itself to us; for it would not only cause much more trouble and probably increased expense, but would also strengthen quite unnecessarily the feelings of disagreement among the parents of the pupils and their teachers. And so unless a single service can be held in which all can have confidence and interest, in which sectarianism will not appear in any form, religion would better be banished from our public schools...