Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Moreover, a spirited and desperate struggle in such circumstances will be an immense help to athletics. If Harvard men in the future can feel that at a time when prospects were the darkest, no despondence and no slacking in determination were indulged, it will be a spur that will go far towards securing success. The more times that Harvard acquits herself well in hard places, the more likelihood is there that she will be able to do so again. An athletic spirit, transmitted from class to class, is a very real force...
...write to you in the name of the class of ninety-five to express, as deeply as possible the great and personal sorrow which we feel has come to all of us in the death of your son. Beside the bereavement which every one who knew him has suffered in the loss of a sincere friend, each member of the class has felt that the loss has come to him as something personal. Your son was a man whom we were proud to call a classmate and who stood to us as the representative of all that was quiet...
...would have applied first are not specified and therefore all the remedies are presented as equally imminent. Some of these measures have much in them that will recommend them to the students, but, on the other hand, there are at least two which the great body of students whould feel to be uncalled for at the present time and proper to be mentioned only as remote possibilities. These are,-first, the abolition of freshman intercollegiate contests; and, secondly, biennial intercollegiate contests by 'varsity teams in each sport...
...question of action, recommend only mild measures, and that he really intends to hold these measures in reserve in case the mild measures should not be sufficient. We consider it unfortunate, nevertheless, that he mentions any such extreme measures at all. The great body of students in Harvard today feel that some reform in athletics is needed. These students are not greatly prejudiced either for or against athletics; they believe that athletics are good and give undoubted contributions to the upbuilding of health, manliness, and morality; and, on the other hand, they believe that athletics have no monopoly on goodness...
...spirit is worthy of perpetuation. A student has gained little from his college life if his sympathies have not developed,-if he has not at least begun to feel that other men are worthy of consideration as well as himself. Here at Harvard there is the widest divergence in the means of the students. There are the very rich and the very poor. This inequality breeds good to no one. It grinds out the joy of life to the man who is wretchedly poor, and it makes easy the corruption of life to the man who is enormously wealthy...