Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second place we contend that this intercollegiate game develops individual efficiency--that it teaches a man to undertake great things and carry them through to success. Our third contention is perhaps the greatest of all. It is that intercollegiate football fosters and develops in a man a spirit of loyalty for an ideal, his college, which is one of the greatest forces in the upbuilding of mainly character...
...Clark concluded the argument for the affirmative. My colleagues have shown, he said, that football demands extreme and excessive methods and fosters a spirit that calls for success at any price. We have already shown that it is responsible for physical harm and mental mediocrity. Finally it remains to prove that the immoderate desire to win demands success at the sacrifice of honor and fair play. There is a distinct tendency today towards unfair, and brutal playing, and this unfits football for a place among college sports. Unfair methods are profitable towards victory, and there is every incentive to their...
...Wallet," by S. M. Crothers h. '99; "Man and the Earth," by N. S. Shaler '62; "Reason in Religion," and "Reason in Art," by George Santayana '86; "Jesus Christ and the Christian Character," by F. G. Peabody '69; "Essays in Application." "The Childhood of Jesus Christ," and "The Spirit of Christmas," by Henry Van Dyke h. '94: Rational Living," by H. C. King p. '83; "Swinburne," and "The Terch," by G. E. Woodberry '77; "John Fiske," by T. S. Perry '66; "Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812," by A. T. Mahan h. '95; "Christian Belief interpreted...
...team took the 2.15 train for Marblehead, where it is located at the Cliff Club and three cottages connected with it. Signal practice was held on the lawn behind the club house. The men ran through the plays with more speed, life and spirit than has been seen this season...
...Ramanathan, K.C., C.M.G., Solicitor-General of Ceylon, spoke last evening in the Union on "The Spirit of the East and the Spirit of the West...