Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...consider the first point. Harvard has always stood at the head in educational matters; she has stood in a position that made it right for her to take the lead and in a measure dictate to the others. Unfortunately this is not her lot in the athletic world. She cannot stand alone, boldly demanding that those of equal athletic prestige do as she says...
...facts justify him in believing that he could do his fair share, but they also show that Coach Lathrop, whose long experience in handling track men entitles his judgment to great weight, and Captain Dodge are not accountable for "bad management." An accident like the one in the race cannot be reasonably foreseen; long experience by runner and trainer cannot avoid such an occurrence. The strongest team in the University, viewed from the circumstances existing before the race, ran against Yale. The team's defeat was simply a misfortune...
...principal reasons advanced by the Faculty in favor of cutting down the number of intercollegiate contests is a belief that intracollegiate athletics, giving an opportunity for every man to indulge in "sport for sport's sake," cannot exist beside the overwhelming interest in games between the colleges. They also believe that the undergraduates are not unanimously opposed to a curtailment of schedules. Every opportunity that is lost to disprove these beliefs helps just so much to defeat our own aims...
Post mortem discussions of athletic events are never pleasant, especially when a Harvard team has been defeated; but when the defeat is due to a flagrant violation of the first principles of coaching, it cannot pass without a word of protest...
...well be disturbed at this, for in any difference of opinion hard feeling is sure to result, if the parties at odds cannot consider fair-mindedly each others' points of view. Friction between instructors and students is the last thing that any of us care to see, but if any friction has resulted, the CRIMSON does not hold itself responsible. In upholding our right to engage in our full quota of intercollegiate contests, we have merely expressed the opinion of a large majority of the undergraduates, and incidentally...