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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...combined with the cleanest sort of fielding only goes to prove that the coach has turned out a team which, through a gradual process of development, has come to play as a unit. Dr. Sexton has earned the respect and personal regard of every man on the squad. 'To say that Harvard as a whole congratulates him is needless...
...value of the Living Room lectures cannot be overestimated. Their success next year depends in large measure upon the forehanded efforts that the officers make this spring toward getting the right men to say that they will speak. Perhaps it may be difficult to get definite replies as yet, but every step taken now will make progress next fall both easier and quicker. The choice of dates might, well be left until then. To restore the Union lectures to their, former standard requires from now on the untiring perseverance of the 1912 officers...
...this very reason better, since it requires a man to show that during two or more years he has the ability and the energy to do work of a high order. As a matter of fact, a man who has attained distinction in courses no more advanced, let us say, than German A, or History 1, has by no means proved hat he has either the ability or the inclination to persevere; and if it is only the chance of an early election to the Phi Beta Kappa that makes him work in the first year, one would like...
...opposing elevens. When interviewed after the game Umpire Knapp said, raising his bandaged hand to heaven, "Those News-gatherers were infinitely superior. They reminded me for all the world of the Orioles when Anson was in his prime. Oh those days--" Whereupon he relaxed into unconsciousness. Needless to say he was not bothered again...
...case, not for muckraking, but for a sort of loyalty on the part of coaches and especially players to the ideal of universal athletics. If a University football man really needs five pairs of shoes and three sweaters in seven weeks, far be it from any of us to say him nay--and even if he only thinks he needs them, it may be conducive to the happiness of us all to keep him happy--but I wish that somehow he could feel instinctively about each purchase, that if he could get on perfectly well without this or that...