Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Twenty men reported for the University hockey practice yesterday afternoon on Holmes Field. After preliminary work in shooting and passing, a practice game consisting of two thirty-minute halves was played between the first and second teams. The play was very fast, the men showing more spirit than has been apparent for some time, and the team-work was encouraging...
Last night's Symphony concert was of particular interest because the ballet music of Professor Paine's opera "Azara" was given its first hearing in orchestral form at these concerts. The music has tone-coloring of exceptional beauty, and a spirit and freedom of touch that wins for it instant admiration. Mr. Gericke and the orchestra did full justice to the work, and it may be said to have been given under most favorable circumstances. The soloist was Miss Maud McCarthy, who played admirably a difficult Brahms concerto. Miss McCarthy has a power of expression and a clearness of execution...
...make-up of the teams, little improvement was shown in team-work, the men having a tendency to play out of their positions. Although the shooting and passing were more accurate than they have been hitherto, the play as a whole was listless and lacked drive and spirit...
...fortune, young gentlemen, that you will always name this date as a central date in the history of your lives, in the history of this College. And you will remember in your thanks to God, you will remember in your hope for your country, you will remember in what spirit these gifts have been given by men whose names even are forgotten. No one shall say that they have left no memorial. You are their memorial, and your lives in the next fifty years are to remind men of these unnamed benefactors. They shall remind you of men who desired...
...article entitled "Sport or Business?" W. James, Jr., '03, treats the athletic question from the point of view of one who believes that Harvard athletics are losing the true spirit of amateur sport through making "frantic attempts to beat Yale." This question is of such general interest, and is so ably dealt with in this article, that any condensed summary of its contents must be unsatisfactory. It will be taken up at length in a future issue of the CRIMSON...