Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...intercollegiate football both in the light of adverse criticism and in the light of praise and have determined its characteristics, we must balance off those that are good against those evil. It is the object of the negative to show the wholesome and ennobling qualities of this greatest of American games. We believe and all who have had any experience in football, whether as spectators or competitors, cannot fail to agree--that there are distinct benefits in this institution of intercollegiate football in America. In defense of this view we offer three distinct contentions...
...life that would otherwise be lacking. We contend that as a consequence of the presence of this institution there is created more than from any other cause a wholesome outlet for the surplus energy of the student; that it has completely solved that problem which has harassed faculties since American colleges began. In the second place we contend that this intercollegiate game develops individual efficiency--that it teaches a man to undertake great things and carry them through to success. Our third contention is perhaps the greatest of all. It is that intercollegiate football fosters and develops...
...hours in drinking and duelling bouts, while even in England riots between town and gown are frequent occurrences. The overflow of student vigor in America has formerly taken the form of such college pranks as ragging of signs, gate lifting, and hazing. Those disorders have now practically disappeared from American college life, and the cause of their disappearance, in the opinion of such men as Professor Adams of Wisconsin and Dean Briggs of Harvard, has been the rise of athletics, which rise is due for the most part to the great American game, intercollegiate football...
Thomas Street Clark '08, Cortland, N. Y., prepared at the Cortland Normal School. In the American Whig Society, has was winner of last year's freshman prize debate, and in the trials for the present debate he won the Spencer Trask debating prize of $50. He was a member of his freshman debating team which debated with the Yale freshman last spring. This is his first debate as a member of a University team
...Memoirs of an American Citizen," Robert Herrick...