Word: letting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ever assembled marched over Cambridge and cheered until they were hoarse. Does that indicate that the men who have backed the team throughout the season are running to cover under the so-called "Harvard indifference," merely because we have two defeats behind us and a hard game ahead? Let us ignore technical perfection for a few days. No team ever won a real victory by that alone, and many "invincible" teams have learned that the right sort of a fight will disturb the most thoroughly perfected plans...
Next Saturday Yale's renowned offence and Mr. Camp's skill will be opposed by a less impressive team developed by coaches of less experience. But the Harvard team is made up of strong players, and of fighters who will use everything they know to win a victory. Let the undergraduates do all that is in their power to assure the team that the University is behind them to a man, and that no one who is worth while will admit defeat any more than the players themselves...
...Let us not form our judgment of an undergraduate's attitude from the fact that he takes some one easy course. A fair critic will reserve his decision until he has looked into the rest, of the man's schedule and also into the reasons which may have induced him to choose the questionable course...
...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 release from persecution, or a few minutes of mild enjoyment...
After a glance back at the seven already to our credit, let us look forward to "ten straight" for the season. J. ALLEY...