Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spirit shown at the football games this fall has been a disgrace to such a university as Harvard. The attitude manifested by the cheering sections certainly does not merit half so good a football team. The whole College should be ashamed of the lack of enthusiasm that has made it necessary for our leaders to beg for better singing and cheering at the very times when our men most deserved that encouragement...
Harvard is not composed of "quitters". Our substitute team, fighting against one of the finest elevens in the country, demonstrated that most clearly on Saturday. Why then do not the students enter into the spirit of the games with more vigor? Our team has coaching second to none; every man on the team, as Captain Fisher has said, is a fighter; but if, at the outset of an important game, any player makes a mistake and the opposing team seems to "get the jump" for a moment, the student body seems to lose heart and to desert the team. Thereafter...
...unfortunate that we at Harvard can give so little attention to our visiting teams. We are so overwhelmingly interested in the partisan side of athletics that we have forgotten that a social side can be added without detriment to the spirit of rivalry. At present most of our athletic visitors spend the night in Boston and do not come out to Cambridge until just before the game. Immediately afterward they go back to town, having seen no more of Harvard than the Square, the Stadium, the Locker Building, and the historical bridge across the Charles...
...stay in Boston rather than in the enemy's country previous to a contest. There ought, however, to be a little time after the game for the interchange of those social civilities which could not but bring Harvard into closer connection with other colleges without destroying the true spirit of rivalry. If the visiting team has to hurry away so early that there is no time for a "training dinner", there could at least be a short reception in the Union. The new Varsity Club, when completed, will no doubt greatly facilitate the establishing of more friendly relations between...
...there, Moody, Mackaye, Carpenter, and Hunt; today they are gone, and the bubbling Castalian spring of college verse has been transformed into a sluggish fountain pen. The Harvard Monthly, famous for over twenty-five years for the quality and finish of its verse, should first attempt to waken the spirit of true poetical inspiration, and add new lustre to its honorable roll. May the editors never forget the fact, that a pretty good poem is like a pretty good...