Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opinion, that the action of Harvard, in withdrawing from the Intercollegiate Football League, is justified. To put on teams players who are not bona fide students has a pernicious effect on the teams, on the colleges, and on the sport. College athletics have become infected with professionalism, and there is no prospect of improvement under the present League. The spirit of recent conventions has been that of casting formal difficulties in the way of a proper agreement between gentlemen. We are convinced that the League in its present form is an obstacle to genuine sport...
...There are two elements-the manifoldness of the brain, and the unity of consciousness. Consciousness is always a unit. These two elements cannot be connected. How then, can a variety of elements produce unity of effect?" He proceeded to demonstrate this by the examples of the resultant of the action of many billiard balls upon a single one, and by the way a crowd will rush into one mass as if by unity of consciousness...
...dignified position in regard to athletics, and a position which, in view of the absolute certainty with which we could predict sneers from hostile newspapers, was a courageous one. The existing football league, not seeming to afford auspices under which good square football could be played, Harvard withdrew. Our action appears all the more admirable when contrasted with Yale's hesitancy in taking what she has already committed herself to saying is a right step, This hesitancy is caused by the very factors that we scorned to fear, i. e., misrepresentation and abuse by the uninformed. The writer has heard...
...believe she is mistaken. Whatever may have been her intention, she has not fairly represented Harvard's attitude toward her own withdrawal from the foot ball league. Very possibly there are men among us whose natural timidity forces them to look askance at Harvard's recent action, but these men neither represent the prevailing sentiment nor wield the strongest influence here. Harvard is not sorry that she has taken the stand she has. As we have pointed out before, she is in a far better position than any she has occupied since the football league was organized. What cause, then...
...defend it, and bear in mind the words of Mr. Bacon, 'Harvard, may she always be right, but Harvard, right or wrong.' " This savors too much of the "win at any cost" spirit, and does not give any good reason why we should not criticize the recent action. It seems also to distort our attitude somewhat. The second editorial urges Harvard's withdrawal from all athletic leagues as the best proof of her earnestness in reform...