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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...start in with a will and with that spirit which shows a genuine determination to win. This spirit needs, perhaps, to be defined at Harvard, for it is perfectly apparent that until lately we, as a body of students, have not had the least idea of what it means. The idea conveyed by this term is not that we should sit down and spend our time in idle gossip over our "prospects"; it does not mean that we should grind our teeth and declare ourselves beaten from the start; nor does it mean that we should smile blandly because...
...pleased to be able to make a date with you. We will meet you on your own grounds, and tug according to your own rules and conditions. We have enough funds to carry us through our trip. Will you have a tug with us? To show you that we mean business I will put it in the form of a challenge...
...Moulton began with the definition of the word humour and its derivation. It was derived from the Latin root meaning moistur and during the Middle Ages came to be applied in the plural to the moistures or juices which on old medical authority made up the constitution of a human being, as bile or phlegm. So a bilious or phlegmatic humour came to mean a certain character or state. This was the sense in which Jonson used "humour," in the play "Every Man out of his Humour...
...still an open question whether the system of janitors now in force in the college dormitories is the great improvement over the old method it was hoped it would be. We do not mean to imply that the men now in college rooms do not enjoy much better accommodations now than they did twenty years ago, but we do imply that the new method, as carried out, is not much better than the system of three years ago. The rooms are not any better cared for, and expenses do not seem to have decreased in the least. Men have...
...colleges on the headlong path to professionalism dong which they were plunging. Harvard held that leagues were responsible for half the evils of athletics, because they forced an unreal "championship" upon the competing colleges, which came to be more valued than the game itself. They furnished the basis for mean trading, disreputable contentions and continual bickering which reflected much discredit on college athletics. It is not necessary to cite instances; the history of all college leagues stands as proof of the statements here made...