Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Captain Cumnock there is nothing but praise. His earnestness and enthusiasm have raised the game of football to a much higher place than it has ever held here before, and he has fully deserved the loyal support which the university has given him. He has well prepared the way for a victorious team next year...
...athletics has fewer objectionable features than rowing. It calls forth at once the manliness and the physical endurance of each contestant and offers little or no incentive to sharp dealing. In this, then, the crowning event of our college athletic year, nothing that will further good feeling and loyal college spirit should be omitted; and surely a glee club concert on the coming occasion would at once bind Yale and Harvard men together, and fill the air with genuine loyal enthusiasm for old Harvard...
...continued poor work on the part of the team itself. Today there will be a chance for both the college and the nine to redeem themselves We expect the nine to play a steady winning game from the start. From the college the team will look for loyal support and enthusiasm. It may seem strange that there should be any doubt that the college would do its part in an important game. Those who witnessed the first Princeton game, however, will bear witness that the efforts of the college were exceedingly feeble compared with its capabilities. There is never...
...outcome of the Yale game is no ground for discouragement, for in that game Harvard played with her team partially disabled, and under hard luck from the start. This afternoon Harvard will be playing on the home grounds, encouraged by the loyal support of the whole college. We have confidence in the nine's ability to play a winning game from the start, and to score a deserved victory...
...Harvard from other colleges owe no allegiance to the University. Such an absurd rumor scarcely needs refutation. It is true that the most of these men come here as graduates of other institutions, and that their first allegiance is due to these institutions; but that they are also loyal to Harvard, and are interested in her advancement, needs no better demonstration than is afforded by the organization of this club with the expressed object of doing whatever they can to build up one of the most important departments of the University...