Word: spoils
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...whole, '99 has proved the invalidity of the only objection raised last year to a Sophomore dinner, namely that a Sophomore dinner would spoil the value of a Junior dinner...
...number of complaints, of which the communication published February 9 is an example, in regard to the site selected last summer for the Phillips Brooks Memorial House. They have been expressive of a feeling which is now in measure general, that any building, however small, placed behind Stoughton will spoil what is now a very complete portion of the Yard...
...result can be foretold, and it is worse than absurd to encourage any general expectation that Harvard will have the game in her hands. Whoever wins that game must fight it out to the bitter end, and any feeling of security is ill founded. Too much confidence tends too spoil the team. It also tends to produce a violent reaction against the method of coaching in case of defeat. Finally it gives outsiders and graduates an exaggerated idea of the team's ability, which calls down upon them perhaps unjust criticism if they are defeated by a team which...
...this amount of flowers, to say nothing of tearing them off the Tree. Moreover, there would be no object in carring off more than a reasonable number, for the simple reason that the men behind would not permit it, but would deprive their greedy comrades of any superfluous spoil...
...expressed themselves after the game as thoroughly disgusted with the spirit in which the undergraduates applauded the playing. All idea of fair play seemed to them to have been lost in the desire to win, the errors of Harvard's opponents being loudly cheered and attempts being made to spoil their pitcher's aim. This account seems to us exaggerated, but there must have been some trace of such a spirit at the game to impress several persons sitting at different parts of the field. If any such spirit should be shown on Holmes Field this afternoon it will...