Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Freshman Glee Club has been practicing regularly since the first of November, under the leadership of H. C. Taylor '97, and is preparing to give concerts soon after the mid-years. At present there are about six men to a part, but this number will be somewhat reduced before the first concert. The club at present includes the following...
...captain of the team has to begin the season feeling that no one believes the team can win, probably he can never make it win. The difficulty must be clearly seen but must not be exaggerated. To give up hope at this time is cowardly, for with able leadership and hearty support a championship nine is not at all an impossibility. The attitude of the students should be one of friendly feeling toward the nine and the baseball men in college should feel a personal call to service. Much interest can be aroused and very great impetus given...
...baseball interests today, the fact of the inexperience on 'varsity teams of the players, make it absolutely essential that the best man possible be chosen to succeed Mr. Cook. As everybody realizes, the prospect for the baseball season is very blue and it will take the most vigorous, clearheaded leadership and the most willing, enthusiastic support to turn out a winning team. In choosing the new captain the best interests of our athletics demand consideration of a number of points which readily suggest themselves...
...connections or anything of the sort; fitness and individual character and the ability to see clearly the conditions and to adapt himself to them, these and these only should have any weight. And fitness in this case means a clear head, a steady purpose and the quality of natural leadership. It does not imply the greatest actual ability as a baseball player any more than generalship in an army implies the best shot with a rifle or the greatest ability in sword practice. The man who can get the most work out of the nine with the least possible friction...
...great confusion on the day of the game unless there are capable men to keep it in some sort of order. The men chosen to lead the cheering should be men with good voices whose records here at college have shown them to possess the qualities of natural leadership. Unless they have the respect of the students in the sections no concerted cheering can be expected. And this is an all important point, for good cheering can be a very substantial aid in winning a game, and poor cheering, expressive as it is of a fickle disposition in a crowd...