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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have received the following letter from Mr. W. H. Goodwin '84, one of our best known athletes, and are very glad to publish it. We recommend it to the thoughtful attention of the college...
...leisure to Harvard's prestige, dawddling away his time in Boston or loafing about the clubs, when his presence and example on the crew, the nine, or the track might put Harvard to the fore, and such a man should be condemned cordially; but instead of that one hears him commiserated for being compelled to keep in training four or five months in the year. Such a spirit will never defeat Yale and Princeton. Men go out to the ball games and sit like so many dummies, almost afraid to cheer lest they may hurt their opponent's feelings...
...great divergence in the field of athletics. Let the crew, the nine, the eleven and the Mott Haven team first receive the benefit of every man's enthusiasm. Win in those branches before you try for honors in other courses. Cultivate such a spirit as will not allow any one who suits his own lazy, selfish inclinations where he might be of help to the college in one way or another to maintain his position before his fellow students, and then with every man honestly doing his best, physically, mentally and pecuniarily for the common glory you will see Harvard...
...publish today a letter from a well-known graduate, who in his day did much for Harvard athletics, and is now deeply interested in their success. This is but one among several letters received by the CRIMSON from graduates, insisting on the same idea that lack of enthusiasm and support on the part of thecollege is the cause of our ill-success in athletics. We concur most heartily with the sentiment of this letter. There is a lack of whole-souled enthusiasm, a want of a determined spirit of winning on the part of the whole college that must well...
...launch; the boat club in addition to this, itself, paid on this account, four hundred and fifty dollars, besides two hundred for a few minor alterations and the expense of getting the launch to Cambridge. The launch is now the property of the boat club and not one cent of money is owed on its account...