Word: think
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fear, however, that all propositions Harvard is able to make would hardly be entertained by Princeton. The condition of the discussion at present is this: Our athletic committee have taken a firm stand against granting permission to the team to play outside of New England, and, unfortunately, as we think, has already this season made decisions which make it now impossible for us consistently to lay the rule aside. Yale proposed to play Harvard at New York on Thanksgiving day, but, regarding the rule, Harvard could not consider the proposal and the game will be played at Springfield. Moreover...
...which should be its friends, would be deplorable in its moral effect throughoutthe community. Besides undoing much of the best work of the past twenty-five years at Cambridge in building up the more advanced study and teaching of the junior and senior years, it would inevitably, and we think correctly be regarded as an abdication by Harvard of the leading position in regard to the higher liberal education which it now holds, and into which other colleges would promptly step. It would be interpreted as a surrender, or a serious concession, to the influences which constantly threaten the cause...
There have been enough men out for two elevens from the first, so the men have been put to work every day playing a game. The men are apt to think they are out for fun rather than work, however, and do not settle down to earnest effective work. Further it has only been because of the constant and untiring efforts of the captain that the men have been induced to come out. Some of them cannot see the necessity of appearing at practice every afternoon. They do not seem to realize their obligation to the class to come...
...treasurer shall turn over all money received to the graduate treasurer. The treasurer may be authorized to keep in hand any sum which the graduate treasurer may think necessary in order to meet immediate expenses. The graduate treasurer shall hold all money so received for the benefit of the club; any interest which may occur thereon may be appropiated by the graduate treasurer for any athletic purpose he may deem advisable...
...that public spirit and the open sympathy of democratic life seem often to be sought almost in vain. Plenty of these causes for hesitation and discouragement. Plenty of these signs of how much better the college might be than it is-and yet, in spite of every hesitation, I think your answer still would be that here in college, on the whole, the crown which is incorruptible-the crown of character and service-is set before the eyes of men who are ready to see it, and the human powers are bidden to recognize in it, and it alone, their...