Word: morale
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...discussing the problem of the enemies of moral and political progress, Judge Lindsey illustrated his remarks by a number of examples that had come to his attention as judge on the bench, drawing analogies between the young culprits of the Juvenile Court and the full-fiedged crooks and grafters of municipal and state politics...
...what the CRIMSON wants to impress on undergraduates for the rest of this week is, first, that Harvard has only a fighting chance, and not a shade more; second, that to hit that chance is going to require the most enthusiastic determined moral support at mass meetings or other demonstrations of that same spirit; and, third, that in the Stadium on Saturday there must be a real power behind the team to give it that drive necessary to defeat such an antagonist as Yale will surely prove...
...unified enthusiastic whole will "come back" as we know Haughton will, is an other matter. They may still have a blind sort of faith in the coaches but unless it is expressed, why continue to support a team? The coming three weeks is just exactly the time when moral support is going to be decisive. Harvard undergraduates as well as Harvard teams have not been famous in the past for the irresistible drive of their enthusiasm when vanquished. Here is the best sort of time in dispell quickly the ever prevalent gloom after defeat. Let us forget the mistakes, weaknesses...
...game today promises to be hard fought. The University team has the moral disadvantage of playing on the opponents' field where the majority of sentiment will be against it. But we have heard and we believe that our team is made of fighters, and real fighters are not at their best unless the odds are against them. There will be not a few Harvard supporters on the Princeton field to cheer the team. But whether there or here in Cambridge, each member of the University has the hope of a successful outcome of today's contest uppermost in his mind...
...ailment there is a remedy. Trite it is to say that concerted cheering and like expressions of moral support more than counteract the lack of confidence such as the team may feel this afternoon. Nevertheless, it seems to us that another splendid demonstration of enthusiasm similar to that which characterized last year's mass meetings in the Union is due in the stands today. Let all those who appreciate what defeat or victory against Brown implies, what meeting Yale and Princeton with a clean record implies, and above all what irresponsible and compelling enthusiasm implies, let these...