Word: athleticism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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That the training tables are conducted extravagantly I am more than ready to admit; but why attack such an important institution blindly, because of its apparent faults, and entirely disregard its inestimable benefit as a factor in our athletic life?
One of the heaviest charges brought against intercollegiate athletics is the extravagant way in which they are conducted. Undoubtedly, the training tables form one of the biggest and most extravagant items in the expense, and are accordingly the object of violent attacks by the opponents of collegiate commercialism, who decry...
I should like to see the training table considered primarily as a social institution, which has the additional advantage of providing all who partake of it with the food required to make them strong, well-nourished men. It seems to me indisputably true that the more we look on our...
To utilize the full value of the training table, the Athletic Association should provide some place, preferably an adequate section of Memorial Hall, where suitable and unextravagant food could be served to all the major and minor teams and their more promising substitutes. Some such "wholesale" system as this, in...
Now in order to perpetuate this spirit it is necessary that Harvard shall compete on an equal footing with her opponents. It may well be that the winning of a game is not the essential thing in athletic contests, but it is surely essential that there shall not be certainty...