Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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What I want to disparage is the lethargic satisfaction now running among the majority of the undergraduates who really are the ones to work a change for the better. These continued defeats are doing the College no good, if not positive harm, through public opinion which so often jumps at conclusions; and what they might be I leave to be considered. I should like to see the question of football threshed out in these columns and some action taken, no matter how radical. GRADUATE
...nature of Harvard undergraduates. We must explain it by the fact that a revolt against provincial customs has gone too far, and that in ridiculing many of the seemingly foolish usages of smaller colleges we are over anxious to be free from anything similar. An example of the better sort of tradition is that which some years ago prompted undergraduates to remove their hats when passing through the Newell Gate, out of respect for the man whose name it bears...
...part must be borne by Harvard men themselves. This lesser responsibility is due to the general spirit of resignation which was shown, immediately after the Yale game, to have pervaded the University. Being resigned to defeat, coupled with the sentiment so generally expressed: "Well, they played ever so much better than was expected and did mighty well to hold Yale to so low a score," is not consistent with successful football, and if the College as a whole has that spirit it is certain that the team also will feel its influence...
...would not have power to interfere with the work of the coach after he had been appointed. A coach feeling that his efforts and motives were understood by those capable of appreciating them from a technical as well as a general point of view would be in a far better position than one at the mercy of a captain, influenced, possibly, by many outside considerations. FISHER H. NESMITH
...next team, but the choice of both head coach and field coach should not lie entirely with the captain. A suggestion which we print in another column is one of the best attempts to solve the problem which has been offered. The Athletic Committee is obviously not much better qualified to select a coach than the captain; but this committee could surely pick a number of graduate football players who would be more permanent than the body which appointed them, and who would insure a more unified and less spasmodic coaching system than we have enjoyed in the past...