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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cheering on both sides of the field was an interesting contrast to that of Saturday. Everybody must have felt a new feelling of affection for the University and a new confidence in Harvard's ability to win, as the ball was taken repeatedly down the field by the same sort of sharp, determined play with which Yale beat us Saturday. We take the greatest pleasure in giving our heartiest congratulations and our sineere thanks to the whole team; in this we feel that we shall be heartily seconded by the whole University...
...this in the fact that not enough men were appointed to lead the cheering and again in the fact that the sections were so large that the leaders could not make themselves heard. But even admitting this the men who could hear the leaders did not respond with any sort of heartiness. Only when Harvard made some remarkable play did anything like enthusiasm show itself. At the very time when the team needed encouragement, no encouragement was given. There seems, in fact, to be a mistaken idea of the purpose of cheering. It is popularly considered as simply a form...
...respect and the respect of the outside world she certainly has not lost. With the same feeling as if Harvard had won we heartily congratulate Captain Waters and his men on their pluck and on the manly way in which they strove at least to win. There is a sort of "triumph in a losing cause" and Harvard can at least feel this triumph, for her game, though losing, was fair and sportsmanlike. This defeat must have no effect on the Pennsylvania game. Students and team must unite again for this final effort and close, Harvard's record for this...
...front who had voice enough to make himself heard or personality enough to command respect. This year the enthusiasm which is being stored up here every day will break out in great confusion on the day of the game unless there are capable men to keep it in some sort of order. The men chosen to lead the cheering should be men with good voices whose records here at college have shown them to possess the qualities of natural leadership. Unless they have the respect of the students in the sections no concerted cheering can be expected. And this...
...plan for raising an endowment fund of a quarter of a million dollars, with the hope that when it should be offered to the Corporation of Harvard College a union of some sort would be effected, has not yet had a definite result, the contributions so far falling short of the sum contemplated...