Word: considerable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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The question of professional coaching is a difficult one today. By "professional" I mean the ordinary use of the term, referring to the man who for years has either played for money or has earned his living by the instruction of athletics--not the college graduate of reputation who perhaps...
That a good system of graduate coaching can be built up seems entirely possible, when we consider the Yale football system, a recognized success. There ordinarily the captain of the eleven comes back to act as field coach during the next season, and he has graduates to assist him who...
Of the two stories in the number, G. Emerson's "Fantoccini" succeeds in working the reader up to a pretty pitch of suspense, and comes near avoiding altogether the anti-climax which one has come to anticipate in tales of horror; while L. Grandgent's "The Everlasting Hills," after a...
I trust I need not add that in defending athletics I would not for one moment be understood as excusing that perversion of athletics which would make it the end of life instead of merely a means in life. It is first-class healthful play, and is useful as such...
One reason why I so thoroughly believe in the athletic spirit at Harvard is because the athletic spirit is essentially democratic. Our chief interest should not lie in the great champions in sport. On the contrary, our concern should be most of all to widen the base, the foundation in...