Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...except kicking, Harvard was superior to Yale. The game played by the University eleven supposed to be one of the weakest Harvard has ever had, and crippled a few days before the game by the loss of its regular left tackle, was a superb exhibition of aggressiveness and determined spirit in the face of the most persistent ill-fortune. The vigorous attack and the determined defense shown by the University eleven made it the more regrettable that lack of judgment in directing plays at critical moments and a bad fumble prevented Harvard from at least scoring...
...attack of Yale has not proven to be especially effective. Hogan, while making at times short gains through the line, has not succeeded in accomplishing the results in the Princeton game. The Yale attack has been directed principally against Derby at left tackle, but Derby is showing a wonderful spirit of fight, and is holding his own fairly well. He frequently succeeds in opening holes through Hogan. Captain Marshall is playing a much more reliable game than hitherto this season. The most noticeable feature, perhaps, of Harvard's playing is the team work...
...poem was written to disprove the popular theory that protracted scientific study renders the mind unfit for purely literary work. It is in effect five brief plays in which are reflected the large mind and daring spirit of the days of Hawkins, Raleigh, and Drake...
...three times on touchdowns and the second once on a drop kick. As the regular first team men were not allowed to stay long in the scrimmage, a large number of substitutes were put into the line-up. The second put up a very strong game, played with excellent spirit and showed good team work...
Professor William James, on behalf of the Faculty, welcomed the Germanic Museum as an addition to our general back-ground of culture. He spoke of the spirit of study here.--minute research, mainly, as derived from Germany, and said that Harvard could recognize its own spirit of great individuality in these objects of plastic art. He compared the Germanic with the Classic spirit in art. Bacon expressed the Germanic spirit when he wrote "there is no excellent beauty without some strangeness in the proportion." The Mediterranean spirit has always sought to avoid strangeness, and there by its works...