Word: quitters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...five-set tournament match may be a more grueling affair than the most desperate of gridiron battles, but with broken bones, cuts and bruises eliminated, there are usually no external evidences of the punishment. Unfortunately, however, it is also possible for a tennis, player to be an absolute quitter and yet be excused as merely "off his game" or "temperamentally unfortunate...
...person who sits in the cheering section and is content to let the man next to him do the cheering, is just as much a quitter as a football player who refuses to give all of his effort to the team. The cheering and singing at the Brown game was deplorable. Any one can cheer when Harvard succeeds in scoring, but spirit is cheering and urging the team to its best effort when the other side apparently has the advantage. Now, we are going to have a mass meeting on Wednesday and a parade to the field on Thursday...
...Cavatina, "Avant de quitter ces lieux...