Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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When we have a winning spirit out here, then a more permanent and efficient coaching system, such as the appointment of a football committee of old players, or the retention of our present coach as administrator and securing for field coach a member of the last team, or, as in the rowing system, a trained professional, instinctively able to pick men and get the best work out of them, will be a step towards victory over Yale. But even such a coaching machine as Yale's could not bring about our victory over a college which...
...Harvard anniversary celebration, which has been so successfully carried out during the past week, is an example of the non-essentials of college experience, which are nevertheless valuable accessories. The occasion was one worthy of commemoration, but neglect to observe it might have passed by un-noticed. The very spirit in which it was received, however, proves that our lack of old traditions is not due to anything fundamentally opposed to them in the nature of Harvard undergraduates. We must explain it by the fact that a revolt against provincial customs has gone too far, and that in ridiculing many...
...number is as usual made up of fiction. "The Big Violin" by L. Simonson does not realize the possibilities of a good idea. Mr. Simonson sought to show in a stolid Teuton character the triumph of idealism over a materialistic environment, in connection with the conjuring of a masculine spirit out of a bass viol. He finally puts into the mouth of his chief speaker an expression of confidence in this triumph which his readers will hardly share. The characters are flimsy, the narrative is not well articulated, and the style is crude. If one must quote...
...eager spirit in immortal yearning...
...last Saturday, if bound to cause much adverse criticism from both graduates and undergraduates. The responsibility for the defeat must be mainly with those in control of football, although at least a part must be borne by Harvard men themselves. This lesser responsibility is due to the general spirit of resignation which was shown, immediately after the Yale game, to have pervaded the University. Being resigned to defeat, coupled with the sentiment so generally expressed: "Well, they played ever so much better than was expected and did mighty well to hold Yale to so low a score," is not consistent...