Word: harm
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...considering the objections against successful football we can see nothing which is inconsistent with our ideals of sport. True, we do not wish to inaugurate recruiting stations in the preparatory schools, although there is no harm in urging upon our friends the advantages of this institution. We believe that Harvard can turn out winning teams with the material which naturally comes to us, provided that football coaching is so systematized that we can make the best of our resources. At present our object is to beat Yale in football, and as long as undergraduates are united upon that point, there...
What I want to disparage is the lethargic satisfaction now running among the majority of the undergraduates who really are the ones to work a change for the better. These continued defeats are doing the College no good, if not positive harm, through public opinion which so often jumps at conclusions; and what they might be I leave to be considered. I should like to see the question of football threshed out in these columns and some action taken, no matter how radical. GRADUATE
...More harmful than the inconvenience which all must suffer form the so-called good-nation of the susceptible, is the lasting effect upon the characters of the youthful mendicants. We have no right to expect that a class of children of the grammar school age--or even younger--who are educated to believe in their right to extort money from "the students" by cringing or bullying, will outgrow the harm which such a practice has done them. Let us harden our hearts and endure the imprecations, of disappointed petitioners rather than encourage a noxious custom for the sake of temporary...
...football. One of the greatest criticisms that is heard at the present time against the game is that it is too rough and of no use to us after we leave college. Both of these facts are, of course, falsehoods, but that does not in any way diminish the harm they do in the popular mind...
...scheme would have many advantages. Many graduates are glad to give up a day now and then to help in coaching the eleven but in many cases this variety of coaches, each with different ideas as to how his position should be played, have done their pupils more harm than good. If, however, these players should unite to form a superior sort of "second" eleven they would be of much more real assistance in the University team. A hard game some little time before the end of the season is a great help in showing where the weak points...