Word: objection
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University track team. Permission was given to the Freshman shooting team to go to New haven next Saturday, and also to the First Corps Cadets and Battery A to play their annual football game in the Stadium on Thanksgiving Day, it being understood that the Corporation does not object...
During the past week enthusiasm has risen to a pitch probably higher than would have accompanied a season in which Harvard's goal line had not been crossed. The primary object of this was to inspire the team with the idea that the whole University is behind it. But the frequency and effervescent spirit of these spontaneous outbursts prove that they are not forced, but that underlying it all there is a real confidence in the team. We know that every man on the eleven will do all that lies in his power to justify this confidence, and we wish...
...missed, and as a result of their apparent lack of interest the teams cannot but feel that they are representing only a small part of their classes. In the game this afternoon both teams should be impressed with the fact that they are playing for a much greater object than to defeat the eleven men who face them...
...will deny that the object of mass meetings is to encourage a team and to show its members that the University is behind it, and this object is decidedly a good one. If this is granted as the object, why not hold our mass meetings in the Stadium during practice, thus bringing it forcibly before the members of the team that the College is with them. Every fellow who was on last year's squad will never forget that great show of spirit in the Stadium on the last day of practice last year, when about 800 men turned...
...that as such it should be discontinued. It is unkind to oblige an octogenarian bell-ringer to be disturbed unnecessarily early every morning, and it is certainly unreasonable to oblige him in turn to disturb all the students of those two dormitories by a noise which has no object and no excuse. Most men in College do the bulk of their work not in the morning early, but in the evening late, and most Seniors refrain from 8 o'clock recitations, and have therefore no need and no inclination to be awakened at 7. Moreover, in exceptional cases, alarm-clocks...