Word: finer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immense good. Publicity of the right sort does no harm. In the case of colleges more publicity is gained through football than through any other single means. As international sport events have proved their worth in furthering friendship between countries, so intersectional games should foster a finer and more sympathetic understanding among the colleges of the country. Harvard has been slow to take advantage of this. The fact that we shall become acquainted in 1922 with nine teams from nine states gives the new schedule a touch of the unusual that makes it decidedly welcome...
...much--then of making a final stand along the Piave. How well he succeeded is merely a matter of history. The Piave line held; soon the Austrians were forced back, Diaz triumphed. The bravery that accomplished this was not physical bravery; it was the rarer and finer--though less colorful -- moral bravery...
...Whiting has convinced undergraduates that they are naturally more musical than they think themselves to be, as there seems to be a tradition among many that they are too athletic to be able to enjoy the Fine Arts, although it is difficult to see the incompatibility. There never were finer youth than those of ancient Greece. Every man at that time aspired to be an athlete or a poet; every man cultivated his taste for Art as diligently as he developed his muscles...
...There was a time, indeed, when the squad trained throughout the year, working on the machines and running five or six miles on alternate days in the winter time. It undoubtedly requires time and equipment to teach men to row correctly. But to relax emphasis upon form and the finer points of the sport would call forth a storm of protest from three generations of Harvard oarsmen and from innumerable college men who believe in doing things well...
...fullback carries the ball through some point in the line. It is not every team, however, that has so far perfected the play of the other ten men that the fullback can gain consistently at one or any point in the line. In other words, it is the finer points which have been perfected only as a result of long experience and deep thought which give any real assurance of success. Why, may I ask, should any team be put in a position of aiding its opponents, either to duplicate a perfected offense, or find a defense against it, when...