Word: towards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...thanks of all are due to President Eliot and to Professor Hollis not only for their clear and much-needed explanation of the attitude of the Corporation and the Athletic Committee toward undergraduate athletics, but also for some wholesome advice as to the proper sphere and methods of carrying on athletics. To judge from the spirt of criticism in regard to some questions which has been notice recently in Cambridge, these relations have never until now been clearly understood, and the Harvard Union has done us all a real service in arranging for last night's talk...
...John Corbin's article in a recent number of Harper's Weekly on "Why Harvard does not Win" serves as the but against which Grilk '98 has levelled a very good bit of forensic writing. He has shown rather conclusively that a movement toward athletic reform lies not in a reorganization of our social system, nor in the proposed plan of disintegration into smaller colleges which Mr. Corbin, after a year or two at Oxford, advocates strongly, but rather in a greater unity and a broader sympathy among all undergraduates, inspired not alone by the hope of athletic success...
Several graduates to whom these facts have been mentioned are much interested in reviving the old cup and have subscribed toward a piece of plate on which are to be engraved the names of all the winning crews (as winners of the Beacon Cup) from 1874 to 1897. The plate is an octagonal platter, large enough to hold all the names of the winning crews in the past and still leave room for the winners for twenty years to come. In the centre of the plate will be the following inscription...
...unexpected events occurred which made it seem toward the close that Harvard would lose. In the 100 yards dash Roche sprained a tendon in his leg when almost at the finish line, and had to be carried off the track, and Warren fell over the last hurdle in the 220 when he seemed sure of a place. Harvard's poor showing in the mile run was due to Grant's insubordination in competing in the Marathon race contrary to Mr. Lathrop's orders. As a measure of discipline he was not allowed to enter the games on Saturday...
...crews did credit to their coaches and the race as a whole showed that the men had made good progress toward acvuiring the English stroke. They also held well together in spite of their inexperience...