Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...side. Teams or single players on the same side of the centre line may be shifted from one court to another so that the greatest strength may be concentrated on the weaker or more exposed positions. The positions of the players are determined by a captain and thus an element of team play and generalship enters into the game...
Such a game is Dr. Sargent's battle ball, which has attracted considerable attention of late and which he is still trying to develop. If his present effort to introduce a greater element of skill and team play is successful, he will have done a great service to athletics...
...more disturbance rather than less. This sort of superficially smart wisdom we do not believe in. We believe that men who are old enough to be in Harvard are old enough to be sensible, and that they are not debarred from using their sense on subjects which have an element of excitement in them. There are good, strong reasons why there should be no disturbance tonight, and these reasons, we feel, can be brought to notice to advantage...
...more than these changes are needed to put the series on a firm basis,-there needs to be a change in the attitude of spectators. If the farce element is retained, we think that the series are doomed ot run themselves out in a short time. The farce kills the sport; it lowers the standard of play and lowers also the position of the games in the eyes of college men so that the spur for hard, serious practice is blunted. The downward tendency grows constantly stronger, It means that in a short time the series will have no excuse...
...clubs and as willing that they should take part in political meetings of the usual character if held elsewhere, but as unwilling that they should hold meetings of this character in halls which belong to the University. In other words, the Corporation wishes to make sure that the campaign element is eliminated from meetings held, as it were, under the auspices of the University...