At first, highly specialized sports were introduced, but the necessity for developing some form of group athletics in which a large percentage of the pupils would take part was soon made manifest.
He went to none of the cricket-matches and athletics which made the season so lively; nor was he seen at any balls or dinners; nor did he ride in the Row.
Even after seeing how loosely athletics are run here, being only a short time in the school, I wouldn't have fancied it possible to depose Nelson had you not suggested it.
How a school with such a head can stand as well in athletics as Oakdale does certainly gets me.
In the last eighteen years athletics and allied sports, as relating to schools and colleges, have made amazing progress.
Two members of the Athletics Committee have intimated to Coach Morton that they'd rather see football passed by this year.
Wadleigh's choice as captain was confirmed by the Athletics Committee.
Just as plainly as anyone else present the principal now saw the absurdity of expecting a new hat out of the athletics fund.
I ran across 'em, and I've had them printed, by authority from the Athletics Committee.
Wadleigh was chosen captain, subject to the approval of the Athletics Committee of the alumni, which would talk it over in secret with Coach Morton.
We're to continue to ignore the call, and keep out of the school football squad this year, unless the coach and the Athletics Committee agree that we shall have the naming of the candidates.
Such a history can often be built up in the athletics of a High School, but it has to be a school attended by the cream of young manhood and having an abundance of public interest and enthusiasm behind it all.
If you call this to the attention of the Athletics Committee won't they vote to appropriate the price of a new hat out of the High School athletics fund?
After the team had been organized for the season it took action by the Athletics Committee of the Alumni Association to drop a man from the team.
Added to these, were the new juniors, formerly of the sophomore class, who had shown the most general promise in athletics during the preceding school year.
Moreover, it was well known that Mr. Morton's recommendation that a certain young man be dropped was all the hint that the Athletics Committee needed.
The discussion might also be on such topics as Social Life Versus School Life; The Health of High-School Girls; Athletics and Study, etc.
But in time he was sure to realise that athletics were not the aim of life, but only a tavern on the wayside, where we may rest for a little, or which we may pass by, just as our fancy takes us.
House politics and athletics were sufficient burdens for one man in one lifetime.
And when he began to sum up his achievements, he was forced to own that most of them were athletic triumphs, and athleticsmeant little to him.
Men like Lovelace major were almost worth worshipping, because they were men; they made athletics appear grand, because they were such glorious creatures themselves; but there are none of that sort here now.
Not until near the middle of June did the Athletics gain a strangle hold on the upper half of the league standing, from that time on they kept above the .
September brought a slump and Griffith's men surrendered the runner-up position to the Athletics for about two weeks, then came back and took it away from the Mackmen at the end.
The Athletics were beaten out by two teams which were in the second division in 1911, one of them as low as seventh place.
The highest genuine total of hits was twenty-three, made by theAthletics against New York pitchers.
An unpleasant feature of the season, but one which had beneficial results, was the strike of the Detroit players, entailing the staging of a farcical game in Philadelphia between the Athletics and a team of semi-professionals.
The Boston and Washington teams improved magically in new hands, while the Athletics went back a bit, partly because of too much prosperity and partly because of adversity.
The Athletics also run up the highest score of the league's season when they compounded twenty-four runs against Detroit In May.
What happened to the world's champion Athletics the public did not really know until after the middle of the season.
The athletics are technically correct, abounding in helpful suggestions, soundly and wisely given, and the moral tone is high and set by action rather than preaching.
The authorities have gone further than being passive in their attitude toward athletics by ruling that Stevenson, the Captain of the nine, shall only play in league games.
One good feature in this year's High-School athletics is the barring out of all questionable candidates, the two forfeited championships of last year having evidently proved a salutary lesson.
I mentally gave the subject of athletics about ten minutes in which to crop up.
The association will consist of all academies, preparatory and high schools in the United States which are of enough prominence in athleticsto be eligible.
Again, I cannot urge too strongly upon the leaders of athletics in our Eastern schools the desirability and advisability of encouraging these California sportsmen to come East.
Every boy and girl interested in Interscholastic Sport should own a copy of "The Book of Athletics and other Out-of-Door Sports," edited by Norman W.
The fact must be also taken into consideration, that we have nearly a year to improve in, which the Eastern schools do not have, their track athletics ending with the spring term, while ours continue into winter.
Athletics play a prominent part in the story and the whole is delightfully stimulating in the fine ideals of life which it sets before its young readers.
And you must remember that they have advertised Longley Academy as given over especially to athletics and gymnastics.
It was supposed to be something of a physical culture academy where as much attention was paid to athletics as to mental studies.
Popularity is a good thing, but it is not something for which to sacrifice studies or athletics or good standing in any way; and sometimes to seek it overmuch is to lose it.
It is a significant fact that the degeneracy of Greece was synchronous with the degrading of athletics into mere professional contests.
The same rule of participation should govern the athletics of the camp.
What had been the athleticsof the people became a spectacle for the people.
When athletics degenerate into a mere spectacle, then is the stability of the nation weakened.
Baseball League Do not allow the athletics and games of the camp to become a mere spectacle for the campers.
The desire to down the other fellow is the reason for much of the prevailing demoralization of athletics and competitive games.
America today is suffering from highly specialized, semi-professional athletics and games.
But there is just one reason why, namely, that athletics are today regarded as the most important measure and criterion of academic prestige.
But every one knows now that inter-collegiate athletics are as little related to sound health as inter-collegiate debates to sound logic.
Older apologists for inter-collegiate athletics were accustomed to talk about mens sana in corpore sano.
Hence, in one college after another, the administration assumed the direction of athletics in the interest of good management and at the same time, it was claimed, of preserving their amateur character.
A generation ago the management of athletics was in the hands of the students, and the faculty was content to confine itself to the task of keeping the games within proper limits.
Dick is more interested in athletics than he is in his lessons and Father has to keep him at his lessons a while in the evenings after he has been outdoors enough, as Father thinks.
Perhaps theathletics that you like so much will help to keep you well.
But isn't it better to have athletics watched over and amounting to something?
He said he didn't know what he was going to do, not much athletics only 'swimming, of course.
In music I grant you we can give anyone the lead, in languages we're fair, but at athletics we're a set of duffers.
By increased efforts Kitty hoped that before the hockey season was over they might be able to win at least one match, and show that St. Cyprian's could take its place in athletics on a footing with other schools in the Alliance.
Merry, you will be a dead duck in athletics and sports.
He began to understand that he had won a position in athletics from which he could not voluntarily withdraw without being misunderstood and maligned.
He has done more for Yale sports and athletics than any one man ever did before in the same length of time.
His father's warm words of congratulation were prized most of all, but Will felt that he did not require the caution which his father gave him not to permit his success in athletics to interfere with his work for the classroom.
He had pictured to himself how he would lightly turn away his poor work in the classroom by explaining that he could not hope to win in everything, and that athletics had always been his strong point anyway.
For one parent who said anything about a boy's intellectual interests, there were ten whose preoccupation in the boy's athletics was deep and vital.
After all, athletics are only one form of leisurely amusement; and I maintain that it is of the essence of priggishness to import solemnity into a matter which does not need it, and which would be better without it.
It seems to me that the elaborate organization of athletics is a really rather serious thing, because it makes people unable to get on without some species of excitement.
