Word: letting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Let us consider for a moment the amount of risk incurred. Even if not unduly great, it is nevertheless more than in any other sport, because the strain is admittedly more severe, and this too when the men engaged are physically sound, and in good condition. Think for a moment of the risk to a man who is perhaps not in the best of condition, or who has perhaps some slight physical imperfection. This should not be allowed to happen you will say, and should not be considered. It has happened, however, more than once. It is a very difficult...
...even he that is honestly against us is on our part. Again there can be no compromise concerning truth. Yet there is a limit to freedom, even in a college. There is something to be said for the landlady who was accused of religious intolerance because she would not let her boarder sacrifice a bull to Jupiter in her front parlor. A college must not become merely a refuge for cranks. If a professor of Astronomy were now converted to a belief in the Ptolemaic system, he could hardly be permitted to teach it to a class of Freshmen...
...Let us consider for a minute why we have athletic sports at all. Is it not for the pleasure and amusement to be gained from them, for the cultivation of manliness and for the benefit to general health and vigor? Of course in the case of our big teams or crews, where the strain is most severe, men do not try for them for their health, but to "make" the team, and for the honor and advancement to be gained thereby. And this is certainly worth some risk, as are also the lessons of experience and self-denial...
...Let us now look at the results of the five years. In 1897 a team was produced which tied Yale, but was defeated by Pennsylvania. The plays had been largely reduced, the whole scheme more systematized and simplified; but one mistake was made--cripples were allowed on the eleven. These results after Harvard had the previous year suffered four defeats were an advance; and although the season ended with little apparent gain, yet the foundations of an intelligent and efficient system were laid...
...team, however, found itself before the Pennsylvania game and won it handily. This year for the first time the experiment was tried of having three weeks between the Pennsylvania and Yale games. It proved a mistake; the team was keyed up too early. They were given a let up for a few days, after the Pennsylvania game, which proved unfortunate, as they had to work harder