Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...every story that gets abroad. If athletics were run in the open, we might well rely on the general good sense of the undergraduate mind to correct all abuses of any moment, and to keep athletics thoroughly democratic. This shut-mouthed policy does us still further injury by causing doubt and uncertainty, mingled with no little suspicion, on the part of our athletic rivals, and by putting us in a bad light with the general public...
...Congress will not propose any amendment of importance--a glance at history and even a hurried view of present conditions surely must banish every doubt about that. It is a generation since the Congress proposed any amendment, and yet there has been ceaseless agitation for amendment...
...first championship game of the season, the University basketball team defeated Cornell in the Gymnasium Saturday afternoon by a score of 30 to 11. Throughout the game the result was never in doubt, as Harvard was the first to score and steadily increased the lead gained in the first few minutes of play...
This is the English system. It is an old one. It has taken a century no doubt to develop it. The boy begins in his school days under the eyes of a master who was athletic, in his days, and the eyes of his older schoolmates. He does this for pleasure; but if he finds no fun in it, he does it because he must. He will be punished if he doesn't, either by the scorn of his fellows or the kicks of the upperclassmen. He has his sport for five or six years until he loves...
...making one touchdown in the middle of the second half after Wendell had run 47 yards to the 17-yard line. The contest was essentially a clean, fiercely played game of football, but the score fails to indicate the relative strength of the two elevens. Without a doubt the University team put up the best game this season, and although Captain Foster was unable to play, the secondary defense showed the same improvement as the other departments of the game. On account of the great number of punts which were made the contest was extremely open, and the ball contest...