Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laughlin, Yale '26: Too decentralized, with a consequent lack of college spirit...
Hiram Ringham Jr. Yale '26: "There is not enough democratic spirit at Harvard. The players on the football team don't seem to enjoy playing the game, it's too much of a grind. Besides, you take everything too perilously, and there is no spirit left for backing the team...
...thing, this Harvard indifference is being worked to death. The team left Cambridge with no demonstration.... There were two graduates waiting for it when it arirved in New York. Rather a poor way to support even a losing team. The Harvard undergraduate body shows that it hasn't much spirit, and the editors of the Crimson show they have none." As nice a lift of straight forward reasoning as ever clinched a point for an expert on college spirit...
Characterizing Haughton as a man "unquenchable in spirit, irresistable in command feared, loved and honored by all." Dean Briggs told of the inspired leadership which kept Harvard at the pinnacle of football supremacy for eight years...
...Derby, Yale '27: "There isn't any beet. Also, the University is too spread out both physically and bureaucratically, which takes away from the college spirit and the ability to find one's way around...