Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enemies of good-will are on every hand. There are those who seek to find in every act a wrongful motive; who poison the air with suspicion; who will never be content...
Yale has tried non-scouting two years with Princeton and one with all its other football rivals. In but one instance has any suspicion arisen and that in a quarter where mistrust of the plan was preconceived. The game is simplified. Extraneous machinery is eliminatel. It is less expensive. Initiative and self reliance are encouraged. Secret practice periods are minimized and continued student interest is stimulated. Non-scouting forces a team to concentrate on fundamentals. It was a decided factor in the success of the Yale team this year. This is our experience with the plan...
...like the system and is abandoning it. She has a perfect right to her own opinion. We respect her, because to her the plan appears in a different light. With the passing of time, a broadening of experience, and a possible change of perspective, the present evils of suspicion and mistrust that now attend the non-scouting policy may be less pronounced...
...possible that the News is correct in saying that "with the passing of time, and a broadening of experience" non-scouting may give rise to less suspicion and distrust. Until then Harvard prefers to yield up potential benefits rather than submit to present evils. What the News suggestively defines as a "possible change in perspective" has nothing whatsoever to do with Harvard's future attitude toward non-scouting. The perspective will remain as it is now--and as it must remain until the difficulties perceived are removed from the horizon...
...fear concerning Friday the thirteenth one would probably be forced to delve into the Sanskrit or worse. Suffice to say that it is doubtless the most prevalent example of universal phobia in the world. Even minds otherwise destitute of primitive prejudices based on fears are tinged with an irrational suspicion of the day and demonstrate strange stubborness in hesitating to take up any task with such an inauspicious beginning. It is a quite elemental but quite human emotion...