Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There has been much comment recently upon the value of the Harvard cheer. It appears that the trouble depends quite as much upon the spirit of the men who cheer as upon the character of the cheer itself...
...inefficient, half-hearted, drawling cheer of this year has been worse than nothing. No other college gives its team so little support in the way of cheering. If the nine showed no more spirit in its play than the College has shown in its cheering, there would have been little chance of winning the Princeton game, and there would be less chance of winning the games which are to come. E. H. NICHOLS...
...were full of doubt and terrible anxiety for all; and as the struggle went on, the suffering and bloodshed increased month by month. Through it all, the men who had left Harvard to join the army were found wherever courage and patriotism were most needed. The spirit they showed at that time exists in no less measure today, for it is the inheritance of Harvard, and will always be part of her teaching. It was not wanting two years ago when other men of this University offered their lives to their country because they felt it to be their duty...
...Pennsylvania team did not show quite as much fighting spirit as did the Harvard nine, though on bases they were slightly quicker to take opportunities...
...Pasteur medal, which will be awarded to the best speaker in the debate, has recently been received from France by Professor de Sumichrast. In full relief on the face of the medal is the head of a girl in classic head-dress and wreathed with laurel, typifying the spirit of the French Republic. On the back is a scroll bearing the date 1900, surrounded by oak, laurel and Egyptian palm leaves. "University Harvard Medaile Pasteur" is inscribed about the scroll. The medal is two and one-half inches in diameter and contains five hundred Frances's worth of gold...