Word: liking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...College Yard, which should be easily accessible to the students. The club house should be large enough to accommodate some fifteen hundred men. In the house there should be dinning rooms, reading and writing rooms, billiard tables, smoking rooms, and sleeping rooms. In fact the house should be arranged like that of any big social club...
...conditions at Harvard by "cursing out" our athletic representatives when they have had the misfortune to meet with superior teams. I am quite sure that if any one is calling on us to curse the football team for the honorable defeat of last Saturday, our months will be closed, like Balaam's, in the attempt. In other words, while we can all echo "Ninety-Four's" call for vigorous efforts and enthusiastic support, we can not be carried away by the exaggerations of his loyalty...
...expressed wish that the portrait be painted by Sargent, so that it may be a high-grade work of art, fit for our building. We look upon Mr. Choate as perhaps the most representative of the champions of our club in New York, at least the oldest, and would like to have a better portrait of him than is possessed by the Union League, the Bar Association, or any other organization over which he has presided. We hope for such a portrait of Mr. Choate as the Players' Club has of Edwin Booth. To employ Sargent will probably require that...
...excuse makers and that of those who, while feeling keenly and bitterly the humiliation which defeat brings just because it is defeat, cannot refrain from expressing their appreciation of the men who, as they sincerely think, "did the best they could," "played a sandy, up-hill game" and "played like gentlemen." Applied to last Saturday's game, such expressions are not "nonsense" nor are they generally received as such as witness Mr. Elder's letter and most of the newspaper reports of the game. We agree with "Ninety-Four" to the extent of thinking that it is quite possible that...
...little of your space, I should like to make a suggestion. We are too much given to coddling our defeated athletes. This is because we are used to defeat, and take it as a matter of course. But it will never win a football match. We should make a decided difference between a victory and a defeat and in our attitude towards the players who contributed to each. There is altogether too much nonsense in the annual consolation that "they did the best they could," "they played a sandy, up-hill game," "they played like gentlemen, anyway." Why, many enthusiasts...