Word: manly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...practical jokes played upon professors and Cambridge citizens, and of other childish exhibitions of animal spirits. The men who train for athletic teams are, as a rule, the best students; they acquire habits of steadiness and sobriety which we cannot always look for in the average non-athletic man. But is it likely that men will train with such care and regularity if they are to look forward to no intercollegiate contests? The question answers itself...
...prohibited at all events, as being the most dangerous and brutalizing of all sports. It is true that men are occasionally injured seriously on the football field; but for that reason are we to cultivate effeminate dispositions and weak bodies? We hold that the game of football is a manly, invigorating, and ennobling sport. It teaches self-control, coolness at critical moments, quickness of motion, and gives a man that pluck and grit under difficulties that must always be of service in after life. The assertion is made that those who are training for some athletic team are "entitled...
...with a healthy confidence in themselves and a feeling of reliance on each other more than to win their first game, and this we sincerely hope will be done. Brilliant individual playing cannot hold out in the long run against steady team work, and it is to make every man understand thoroughly what team play means that games have been arranged. Every effort should be made to start out with a clear record of victories, in order that the result of the final game may be equally gratifying, and that '91 may feel proud of her achievements...
...clerkship in a New York Law office, may be filled by a third or a second year Law School man...
...clerkship in a Pennsylvania R.R. office with a salary of $30 a month-for the summer only-may be filled by a lower class man...