Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...done in defiance of any rules, however stringent. Such play can only be discouraged by absolute intolerance on the part of players and spectators alike. In the intensity of the desire to win and in the fierce excitement of a game, there is often tolerated a great deal that is indirect violation of the spirit of gentlemanly sport. When the whole attention is directed to the end the means which attain it are often by that very fact thought justified. This should not be so. The true sportsmanlike spirit, so often referred to yet so often forgotten, should be present...
Many people who have heard a great deal about the Harvard case system of studying law but do not know how it originated, will see why so much importance is attached to Professor Langdell's services when they understand that he was the one who introduced the system and under whose direction it has been carried on at Harvard...
...dying out among us? We sometimes congratulate ourselves that we live in better times than the Puritans, and we think that their rugged dutiful lives were much harder than was necessary. We live in luxury, sometimes we sneer at duty, and unfortunately there is not among us a great deal of simple and strong faith in God Many social evils of today we can trace to the lives of luxury led by some and to the carelessness of duty in others. If we are inclined to smile at the stern religion of the Puritans let us remember that...
...system, do indeed exist, but many more have failed to materialize and the positive advantages of the new arrangement, taken as a whole, seem so evident as completely to justify the change. The former club-table men were called upon to make a sacrifice which meant a great deal to them, and they submitted with excellent grace to what appeared to be the good of the majority. If they cannot help thinking occasionally of the good old times, they have at least the consolation, which should be a real one, of knowing that the new system is one of comparative...
...Treadway '96, 7; Simpson '97, stroke. For the time being the most important question is where to find a suitable man to stroke the crew. Simpson, captain and stroke of last year's freshman crew, is at present the most promising man in sight and a great deal of attention is being paid to him by the coaches. Judd '97 is another man who is being tried at this position...