Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...gentleman who found the lack of singing at Wednesday's practice so grievous an omission, must have somewhat perverted ideas on the game of football. The question resolves itself into this: whether we wish to go to Soldiers Field on Saturday, to see an exhibition of manly sport, or to attend a musical festival. If the visitors from New Haven deem it a good opportunity to display their vocal talent, is that necessarily a reason why we should do likewise? Let us rather wait until the end of the game, and then, if the result has justified...
...first case, the noise is liable to interfere with the signals. Secondly, we hope to spend some time and effort in cheering, which is a far more spontaneous method of showing our sympathy or appreciation than by the help of illsung melodies. Also some of us wish to see the game; and this cannot best be done with but one eye on the gridiron, and the other on a song-sheet. Lastly, the assignment of seats by the management has rendered good uniform singing impossible, unless we include the "basso" of our fathers, and the "soprano" and "contralto...
...extend no further. It is an abuse to treat their friends among graduates and undergraduates as a privileged class, yet their friends put very great pressure upon them for special seats. The whole spirit of good sport rests upon equal opportunities to all, both in playing the game and seeing it. Certainly, any system is a viscious one which deprives the undergraduates of their legitimate right to see the games under the most favorable conditions...
...check speculation, and to that end the management deliberately put money into seats it did not expect to sell. Under the circumstances, the common delusion that any undergraduate has been entirely crowded out seems surprising. He has not had adequate opportunity to get good seats, but he can nevertheless see the game...
...whom the conception of a Harvard Union is due is beyond my knowledge, but we owe the fostering of the idea to many men, and we owe the grounds to the Corporation. As you see, it is the result of Harvard team work, of mutual reliance, the future abiding place of comradeship, and therefore let it never, and in no place, bear any name except that of John Harvard. We will open the doors of our house and will write over them: "The Harvard Union Welcomes to its Home All Harvard...