Word: spiritlessness
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...practice of the first and second elevens yesterday afternoon was not very encouraging, During the last few minutes, to be sure, the first eleven seemed to wake up and settle down to real work, but during the greater part of the time the play was slow and spiritless. There was a great deal of fumbling and some very poor tackling. Harding played a good game for the second eleven at quarterback; he did the only really effective tackling of the whole game. Sherwin also played well; he made the prettiest rush of the afternoon, getting past...
...every freshman class there are scores of men who try for their class crew in the fall, and, failing to get on, never see anything more of rowing than some painful, spiritless drudgery in an eight oared barge or on the rowing weights. Now out of all these men there are few who, if introduced to shell rowing or racing of any kind, would not be enchanted with it, and many during their whole college course would engage in rowing as others do in tennis. There has not been room, heretofore, in the boat-house for more boats than those...
...German student was once heard to remark: "What a spiritless land this America is, where you cannot find a dozen young fellows who will sit down to a cozy drinking-bout for about four hours of an evening!" This rebuke was greeted with a loud burst of laughter by all his hearers, and in order to maintain his aggressive standpoint successfully, and to convince his hearers of the truth of his statement, he gave a vivid description of one of these "drinking nights." The students form regular clubs whose constitution, by-laws, and members all centre about the beer...
...There is no disputing the fact that the old-time enthusiasm in boating has given way to a state of apathy. The Dunham Club, which supplies excellent facilities for boating practice, has seen its best days. The inter-class races as a rule are spiritless contests in which the participants are the only ones very much interested. Boating has been on a decline, and men have gotten their exercise from other sources. The wide popularity of tennis has taken many good men who might have had their exercise on the water. The crew men and those within the aquatic circle...
...their full strength. The passing was the best seen here this season, and would have proved equally effective against a much stronger team. But often, and especially in the second three-quarters when Williams made the safeties, our men missed many chances to score by slow and spiritless playing. In this point lies the secret of Yale's large scores, for her men, confident that rigid training will give them as much and probably more endurance than their opponents, do not neglect this advantage but continually force the fighting from the kick-off to the very close of the game...