Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secret practice, as I remember it, was introduced at Harvard in the autumn of 1893, when Bart Waters was captain of Harvard and Loring Delano, of flying wedge fame, was an active coach. Everything was secret that year. No undergraduates had the pleasure of seeing their team practice. I saw no practice at all that year, as it was secret, even with my own brother, a Freshman, playing right end, opposite Frank Hinkey of Yale, on that team. I backed the team, and with my allowance went to Springfield at considerable expense for an undergraduate, and saw Harvard lose...
People often quote Percy Haughton as a great football coach, which he was, but I knew Percy well and intimately in sports for many years, and it was not secret practice which made him famous as a winning football coach, because secret practice was in vogue before his years as coach. It was his personality, his thoroughness in detail, and his perception and realization that to have a winning team the combined support of the undergraduates for the team's success was very necessary. Graduates and undergraduates alike would enjoy together many a weekday afternoon watching football practice on Soldiers...
...away with all secret practice and let graduates and undergraduates enjoy the sports at Harvard to which they are entitled...
...team was submerged under avalanches from West Point, Providence, and New Haven. Misinterpretation of the facts and a false idea of what support the undergraduate owes the coach contributed to produce a journalistic abortion, typical of the press's attitude toward Harvard football this season. "It is no secret that there is general dissatisfaction with the team at Harvard," the writer blandly asserts...
...business took Author Ford to the U. S., which he liked, especially Manhattan. "New York is not America because she is the expression of an ideal vaster and more humane." An amiable but persistent sort, never bearing malice long (he thinks a lack of hatred is the secret of being a novelist) but going quietly on his way "like a nice old gentleman at a tea-party," Author Ford had too much bounce in him ever to be cast down for good. Though for years his books brought him very little money he kept at them. "I have been accustomed...