Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...gathered together each will naturally find some group of specially congenial friends with whom he will form ties of peculiar social intimacy. These groups--athletic, artistic, scientific, social--must inevitably exist. My plea is not for their abolition. My plea is that they shall be got into the right focus in the eyes of college men; that the relative importance of the different groups shall be understood when compared with the infinitely greater life of the college as a whole. Let each man have his special associates, his special interests, his special studies and pursuits, but let him remember that...
...mind simple nonsense, a mere confession of weakness, to desire to abolish a game because tendencies show themselves, or practices grow up, which prove that the game ought to be reformed. Take football for instance. The preparatory schools are able to keep football clean and to develop the right spirit in the players without the slightest necessity ever arising to so much as consider the question of abolishing it. There is no excuse whatever for colleges failing to show the same capacity, and there is no real need for considering the question of the abolition of the game. If necessary...
...score of 5 to 18. As expected, the game was fast and it proved also clean and fairly contested. During the first half the teams were evenly matched, and the period ended with the score, Harvard, 5; Columbia, 7. In spite of Burnham's excellent playing at right guard, however, the University team was unable to score during the second half, while Columbia, aided by Cuthel's splendid offensive game and accurate shooting from the floor and on tries from fouls, was enabled to increase her slight advantage to the final score of 18. Downey took Allen's place...
...defense Foster's body-checking at cover-point was the most effective that he has done, and Willetts kept the puck well away from the goal. Three substitutes were put in near the end of the game of whom Leonard at right centre did good work...
...that certain exceptional men of great athletic ability are prevented from giving the full use of their abilities to their University. They take just as much exercise. They do not one whit more studying. They are merely restrained by this rule from the personal triumphs that are their right...