Word: helping
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...seems unanimous, no good substitute has been suggested. I too believe that the Committee's decision was unwise and should be reversed; but I think we can do still better than to return to the old policy of supporting minor teams by subscriptions, sometimes with and sometimes without the help of allowances from the Athletic Committee. May not this uncertain and fluctuating financial support be the vital reason we have been seeking for the persistent inferiority of some of our minor teams, and the uphill fight the others have had to wage in order to make a showing creditable...
...known will be followed, but in some cases allowances will have to be made for modern dramatic ideas. The coloring will be more vivid and the effects, as was undoubtedly the case, will be more extreme than the current ideas of antiquity seem to sanction. The advice and help of competent people will be used to make the play as interesting as possible...
Following is the musical program: "I desired Wisdom," Stainer; "Our God, our Help in Ages past." Grieg: "The King of Love" Shelley...
...with the proper spirit and properly trained would ever care as to how the spectators were treating them while they were on the field. Before the contest begins and during the time of preparation it is perhaps another question. Then any manifestation of enthusiasm can be appreciated and will help to inspire the men. As to the regular cheering at the actual final contest I am of the opinion it is of little value; because in the first place, practically it is not heard and in the second because the enthusiasm of the contest should be so great...
...game, whatever it may be, ceases to be a test of skill of the two teams, and becomes a general contest, in which cheering plays much too important a part. While Harvard cheers are not used to disconcert other teams, it is hard to see sometimes how they could help but disconcert our own team, for no welcome falls flatter than a fainthearted cheer, and applause and encouragement do not amount to much when only twenty or thirty respond out of several hundred. If we are to have cheering (at all) at our games let it be given a fair...