Word: among
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Fostered by the tradition of the Union Army in the Civil War, a confident feeling has grown up among the people of this country that a large army could be raised in a short space of time. General McClellan's army of the Potomac in 1862 in trying to advance averaged one mile per day, while one day the whole army retreated five miles to meet its provision train. In 1864 Grant had a body of seasoned men who accomplished something by one kind of fighting...
...There exists in football today a situation which if left unchecked by our leading universities is going to endanger sooner or later the very existence of the game. It is quite calmly accepted as a fact among college players that preparatory school stars have their price, and they discuss, as though it were a most ordinary state of affairs, a condition in which preparatory school players have come to view the game as an opportunity of some sort. The impression formulates itself clearly that many preparatory school players have come to believe they have a price and are concerned only...
Part of the clothing collected will be distributed in Europe among the sufferers from the war, while the rest will be given to various charitable institutions in the vicinity. The magazines will be given to hospitals and to reading rooms of houses of charity. Text books used in the larger courses are especially valuable, as there is great need for them in the Phillips Brooks House Loan Library...
...Europe, we begin to hear that liberty must be limited, that it must be regulated. I have heard repeatedly from Harvard men in the last six months that to procure efficiency in peace and war there is great merit in implicit obedience. How is that as an educational doctrine among Harvard men? In the education which we received it was not obedience which was taught to us, but self-control and the development of personal initiative...
...read the other day now Yale had of her own initiative disqualified five athletes for unwitting infraction of amateur rules, and you read that Harvard begged Yale not to do it. You may think that is quixotic, but I maintain that it is the true spirit of sportsmanship among gentlemen...