Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...would seem that they were ignorant of this very obvious truth to judge from the number of men who have been in the habit of watching their nine play. At the game with Technology there were hardly half a dozen. It is discouraging for a team not to feel that some interest is being taken in its movements; to know that they are being watched by supporters instead of by an indifferent crowd or no crowd at all, makes the men on a nine play with a good deal more life. The game with the Brown freshmen today will give...
...need, but give also some grounds on which to estimate the true value of the nine. By watching these practice games closely, and by comparing scores, a certain amount of accurate prognostication can be made about the team. And there is nothing that helps a team more than to feel that an interest is being taken in them. It is possible to play for the mere purpose of beating, but it is ever so much easier to play, feeling that someone else is following every movement, and is as interested as you in the results of the game. The more...
...whose good points had absolutely no claim for recognition from Harvard men. Anyone with an instant's reflection will see what a misconceived, unsportsmanlike line of action this is. There is a generous, manly enough element in college to treat the visiting teams with courtesy, and make them feel as if they had come not among mortal enemies, but among appreciative friends...
...Athletic Association is to be congratulated for the success of its winter meetings. On Saturday, especially, the events went off with a good deal of snap, thereby adding materially to the enjoyment of the on-lookers. In the cause of athletics, the association may well feel that it has scored a point. In looking back at the meetings last year, it is striking to note the increase in the interest taken in indoor gymnastic sports. The number of entries last winter was small, the interest taken by the college in the meetings seemed low, and some extremists were predicting...
...feel that it is both an honor and a privilege to preside at this debate. I have also a sensation that the position is free from the perils that beset a referee at a regatta or an umpire at a ball match...