Word: know
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wish the undergraduates could know the feeling toward Harvard which exists down town among men who didn't go to college. Her name coupled with athletics is a laughing-stock. What is worse, owing to the present prominence of athletics, the name of Harvard as a university, from constant association with defeat, is loosing its reputation among a number of men, who, not graduates themselves, have sons who will soon be old enough for college...
What I propose is a more hard-hearted policy toward the players themselves. I have had some small athletic experience, and know that if they have the right stuff in them, it will do them good. We want the spirit which characterized the coaching after the Yale game two years ago, which resulted in the overwhelming defeat of Pennsylvania. We want more of the kind that followed the Princeton game this year. It may hurt the feelings of eleven men to be cursed out after a defeat, but not as much as it aggravates eleven hundred men constantly to hear...
Will a man play harder if he knows that after a losing game there are friends eager to crowd around and wipe away his tears, or if he knows that, defeated, he will be given the cold shoulder? I know this sounds hard, but success is worth the price. We want, not the spirit that accepts defeat with resignation, but the spirit that will not tolerate...
...course circles Fresh Pond and is about five miles long. Men need not previously know the course, as a trail will be laid over it this morning...
...thinking men. In spite of scientific discoveries, we find ourselves continually falling back on the impenetrable mystery in which death is shrouded. The more we learn, the more we crave. New knowledge only reveals mysteries wider and deeper than ever. Friends and loved ones leave us for we know where. Love remains; therefore the sense of mystery still lives...