Word: following
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...bettering of humanity. If our aim be to get riches, we hope to be able to do good with them, and our power we wish to use for a good result. The way to mend and be less worldly is to be sincere. Whatever be our aim, we must follow it out with earnest and honest conviction...
...ever from knowing the cause of our repeated defeats on the water. At least if we do happen to know them, there is no one who is so thoroughly a master of the situation that he can lay down definitely the best methods to follow. Tradition, as Professor Trowbridge says, is the only way we have of passing from one crew to another the knowledge accumulated from constant practice. This ought not to be. We need a man who will make an exhaustive study of different systems of rowing and who can make it his profession to look after...
...prepare themselves to fulfil. Before the civil war, even our leading papers did not concern themselves with presenting news, they were rather the organs for expression of opinion upon well known subjects by able writers. The editor was great, the reporter insignificant. Today, however, people are not ready to follow other men's opinions; their one desire is for the news and for all of it. There are not more than four editorial writers in the country whose writings possess wide and strong influence...
...plans, we venture to say that the two universities could have succeeded in adopting measures for purification, which would have been satisfactory to all. However, Yale did not see fit to do this; Harvard is nevertheless willing by her own example to set a pure standard which others can follow or not as they please. The rules which we publish have been adopted finally by the Athletic Committee and will be applied to all athletes at Harvard after the calendar year of 1893. irrespective of any regulations which other colleges may determine upon. We believe that our scheme will purify...
...adopt of their own free will. We will gladly cooperate with Yale, or any other college, by taking measures for our own purification. But to us, coercion in athletics, seems neither manly nor sportsmanlike. Rather, let our own standard be such that others may see it, admire it and follow...