Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...great thing to give the impression that we are "dare-devil college boys", "great practical jokers", and so forth. But I think any lady who comes into that gallery will feel that the exhibition given is ungentlemanly, and absolutely unworthy of a man who takes pride in his connection with Harvard. SENIOR...
...Follow sports for sport's sake, and be a sportsman" It is the responsibility of students to make football clean, and if they do not accept this responsibility, it is the duty of the University Faculty to do away with the game. Mr. Fairchild said that he used to think that the game of football was clean, but after examining his photographs he noticed a lot of foul play. While these photographs were on the screen the lecturer went on to point out two peculiar evils, the difficulty of detecting brutality, and the helplessness of men in the scrimmage...
While agreeing with the above recommendations as far as they go, I do not think they go far enough to remedy the present demoralization in football. I feel that the game has lost its just proportions by the introduction of mercantile standards, and as a corrective, I advocate the abolition of gate-receipts. I do not see why a match game between students of competing colleges should not be played before invites guests, as in the Army-Navy contest. When a single game between Harvard and Yale brings in gate-receipts of $80,000, I think that commercialism has found...
...temptations and so inadequate the punishments that brutal instincts are aroused in a man not morally vicious. Is not this effect positively detrimental? Then opponents may play unfairly and a player feels in duty bound to retaliate. The results of this tendency are manifest on every side. Do not think that we are attacking the characters of college football players, for they are often victims of a vicious system which they feel forced to support. The fact remains that the game is responsible for a condition which fails to foster manly virtues, and which is a detriment to the development...
...than those of all the minor sports put together. The difference between the major and minor sports, it may be noted, consists chiefly in the interest the University takes in them. There may be as many candidates for the handball team as for the crew, and its enthusiasts may think it superior as a form of exercise, but the students, as a whole, follow its fortunes with less attention, and it is for this broad democratic reason that the crew and the track team are granted their subsidies...