Word: equality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clubhouse should be so closely connected with the Union, for both are primarily democratic in spirit. The men who use the Varsity Club are the men training for the athletic teams. Athletics like the Union are "open to all Harvard men without restriction, in which they all stand equal...
...conversation both William James and his father had a delightful sense of humor, a similar richness of vocabulary, and an equal individuality in its use. A peculiarity of both was the habit of delaying speech for an instant, while the mind was working and the telling sentence was framing itself for utterance--a brief interval during which the lips would gather slightly, as for a sort of smile, and the eyes and faces take on an indescribable expression of great charm. Then would burst forth one of those longer or shorter epigrammatic or aphoristic sayings which their friends all recall...
Besides silencing one of the chief objections to intercollegiate athletics in general, the football squad established a precedent of the utmost value to future teams, and a mark which they can earnestly and proudly strive to equal or surpass...
...First, the team. Let us bear in mind that practically the same class of men go to Yale and to Harvard. The preparatory schools send to each university in about equal proportions. Sometimes Yale and Harvard men come from the same family; often they come from the same set or group. They are all merely potentialities. Perhaps Harvard has the best of the picking at the start, for from 1890 to 1900 it will be recalled that it was the Harvard Freshmen who usually beat the Yale Freshmen. None of these Freshman teams received expert coaching, and this factor eliminated...
...self in action with the quick co-ordination of the natural athlete, would count tremendously in a man's favor at New Haven, regardless of whether he had ever played football or gave any promise of playing it. At Harvard, on the other hand, the men are given equal chances of demonstrating what they know, or can readily learn, of football per se; and the tendency is unconsciously to favor the present performer or the one who shows ready aptitude to take instruction. In other words, Harvard sees the present player; Yale sees the future player...