Word: blindness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...idea of holding fall practice is not to pick a nine or develop team work, but to enable the captain and coaches to decide the various positions in which men should be tried, so that the cage work of the early spring may not be blind. The playing squads which have to be handled in the cage are too large to enable such a test to be made, and furthermore, a reliable test cannot be made indoors...
...that a class, which, by its prominence in nearly every line of University activity has thus far made a favorable impression on upperclassmen, can be lacking in common spirit to such an extent. It is possible that the very success of the class in athletics has served as a blind to its true character. With so many to draw from, good teams might be put in the field in spite of an absence of general interest. Before drawing such a conclusion, however, we would suggest another possible explanation of this financial failure...
...since the outbreak of hostilities, and now that a large increase in the army is likely to prove necessary, comes most opportunely. Men are much better able today than a month ago, to take a cool survey of the situation, appreciate that the best of patriotism is not always blind action, and to decide definitely where their duties...
...wish therefore to protest against what may be called blind enthusiasm. Harvard has a team well up to, if not above, the standard of the average Harvard team. We believe that it will go into the game resolved to rise to the occasion and do a little better than its best. Its superiority to Yale, however, remains to be shown next Saturday and to assume it beforehand is the height of absurdity...
Attention should be called to the etchings of Rembrandt, among which are the famous dry-points of "The Burgomaster Six," "The Blind Tobit," and "The Three Trees...