Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...amateur standing of university athletes should be more carefully guarded than at the present time, when the number of outside athletic clubs is so rapidly increasing. These clubs have a more or less close association with university athletics because so many of their members are college graduates. But it cannot be doubted that this association is not in every way to the advantage of the universities. We do not wish to imply here that there are no clubs which do not at least aim to maintain a purely amateur standing, but there can be no question that there have been...
Such statements as these are too absurd to need refutation, but they show that in a time when American athletic ideals seem in danger of being lowered, the universities cannot throw the weight of their influence too strongly on the right side...
...would urge upon you the necessity of appointing proper persons to lead the cheering in the different sections. The statement has at times been made, and perhaps with truth, that Harvard men do not support their teams as they should; that they cannot be made to cheer. Last Saturday, however, I was treated to a novel and certainly not agreeable side of the question: A body of Harvard men, comprising one whole section, not only willing but anxious to cheer, and repeatedly asking to be led, and the usher, apparently appointed for the purpose, either afraid or to lazy...
...deigning to look down on it and yet His authority was always gently asserted to His followers, although their plodding stupidity must have been a continual trial to Him. If we but know Christ for what He is we can not help but acknowledge Him in our hearts. We cannot help but recognize His fortitude and courage in saying "Follow Me." No even death could thwart His purpose. The highest place left for a man today is behind...
...feeling supposed to have been aroused against the College, the evident satisfaction and enjoyment with which several of the property owners witnessed the performance and the fact that there has been no complaint made, ought fully to prove that no such ill-feeling exists. Indeed, we cannot imagine why any one should try to degrade the sport on grounds as unfounded as those mentioned in the letter to the CRIMSON...