Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...team leaves New York on December 26, plays in Pittsburg on December 28; plays three games with Company E of Fond du Lac, at Fond du Lac, Wis., on December 30, January 2 and 3, and finishes the season by playing Cornell on January 26. Besides the western trip, a game has been arranged with the Waterbury Y. M. C. A. on December...
...steam has superseded sail "jack tar" has lost his peculiar characteristics. Not so. The sailor gets his character from the salt sea. He is a growler, yet when he must he does his work cheerfully. He despises the marine as a landlubber. He is a creature of tradition and fond of queer pets...
...students fond of orchestral music of the highest order of excellence the Symphony Orchestra is well known. During the fifteen seasons of its existence this orchestra has acquired a worldwide reputation for excellence in the performance of the world's best music and in the wonderful individual ability of its musicians...
...hundreds of men. It would have brought back vividly the old days when Harvard's supremacy in athletics was almost unquestioned, and when there was never any lack of College spirit. The cheering in the Yard last night showed that the real old Harvard enthusiasm, which graduates are fond of telling about, needs only to be once awakened here to be as strong as it ever was. If we can keep up the sort of spirit that was shown last night we shall raise our athletics once more to the top. This is the spirit that wins, let us have...
...safe to say that nine tenths of the corruption in college athletics today is due to the domination of this motive, in a perverted form, over the pure love of sport. When, furthermore, the latter becomes obscured, teams are selected not from the large body of men who are fond of athletics, but only from the smaller number who are in sympathy with those who happen to be in control at any time and with the particular policy by which the latter seek to obtain victory and honor. If on the other hand the calls for candidates for our teams...