Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lovers of the amateur spirit in athletics will regard with dismay the announcement of the proposed formation in New York city of a professional football team whose ranks are to be recruited from former college stars. The reports of the organization of this team, engineered largely by Charley Brickley, the former Harvard football captain, state that already many noted college athletes have joind the new team to be called the New York Giants, and that games with a number of the professional teams already formed throughout the country are to be part of the season's program...
Lynching is a denial of the right secured by law to every man accused of a crime to a fair trial before an established court. It brutalizes the communities which suffer it by breeding a spirit of lawlessness and cruelty in those young people who constantly witness barbarities unpunished and uncondensed. It blots our fair fame as a nation, for we cannot claim to be civilized until our laws are respected and enforced and our citizens secured against the hideous cruelties of which we are constantly furnishing fresh examples...
Professor Bailey stated that the Harvard Observatory, together with the Blue Hill Observatory, together with the Blue Hill Observatory, would maintain the same spirit of helpful service in the future that it has in the past during the incumbency of Professor Pickering, whose motto was "There are no secrets in science," and who states that any institution might adopt their methods or any persons have their results...
...when Mr. Haughton had little personal connection, the method of coaching was still given his name. But now everything is new. A different organization must be established. That means that every undergraduate must more than over do his share to help the team along. The old Harvard spirit, largely forgotten during the war years, must once again be seen around Soldiers Field. We are told the material is excellent, that the coaches are the best to be had. These two parts of the Harvard football machinery will do their job well. The other portion, the great unorganized mass of undergraduates...
...should the spirit of patriotism, so nobly upheld in war, be cast aside when the external danger threatening the nation ceases? True it is that Mr. Gary and his associates of the United States Steel Company have not been tactful in dealing with the demands of the organized steel workers. But that is hardly reason enough for the latter to strike, especially when asked to delay action by the President of the United States. Until some satisfactory arrangement can be made some of our leading statesmen tell us that there will be no peace in the world until every nation...