Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...cannot be denied that the spirit of this rule is almost never complied with in football games, though the audible coaching of players is a rare occurrence. When every substitute who is sent into a game bears a message to the team, and when, as sometimes is the case, the only reason for a change of players is the opportunity for giving instructions to the quarterback, there is a very evident departure from the intent of the rule. Frequently, too, instructions are given as in baseball by the position of a coach or player on the bench. Given two teams...
...crew races and in track meets we have come nearer to the true amateur spirit in this particular by depriving coaches of the right to be near their men in competition. In football and baseball the professional aspect stands out more strongly in this instance than in any other one thing. Professional coaching by the best men available is an acknowledged necessity for success in present-day sports, nor is it at all incompatible with the spirit of amateur competition. But let the coaching be confined to its proper time and place, and when a team is once started...
...lecturer on Biblical literature in Harvard University, will deliver a lecture on "The Miracles of the New Testament" in King's Chapel, Boston, this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. This is one of a series of free public lectures on the general subject "Christianity as a Religion of the Spirit under Historical Conditions," being given by Harvard professors during the winter months under the auspices of the Lowell Institute...
...country team has been badly defeated in three races, in consequence of which the opinion has already been expressed, even in a Harvard publication, that the team is not properly qualified to represent Harvard, and should therefore no longer be allowed to enter intercollegiate competitions. This is the unsportsmanlike spirit with which basketball, after a slow decline, was last year buried by action of the Athletic Committee. It is the spirit which, if persisted in, will kill any sport, no matter how flourishing it may once have been...
...Harvard, and does not change the character of the welcome which is extended. It is a problem in this place to establish between students and instructors any relation less precise than that of the lecture room; but University teas, if accepted by the undergraduates in the same cordial spirit in which they are maintained by the University, will do much toward breaking down the formality of this relation...