Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whose effectiveness really won the game. The freshmen nine has one or two weak men whose places should be filled before the game next Saturday. With these changes and with the same careful coaching that aided the playing and base running of the team in the recent game, we think that there is a good chance for success at Yale. We must warn the captain of the nine, however, not to let the coaching degenerate into a system of tactics scarcely worthy of Harvard...
...State on the back of this sheet any further facts or opinions, relating to the effect of athletics upon yourself and upon the college, which you think will be useful to the committee in forming their judgment...
...hope that the large contingent of Harvard that will go to New Haven with the nine will support the team in every legitimate way. With careful and sharp playing on the part of the nine, and with hearty enthusiasm on the part of the supporters, we think that...
Professor Peabody's statement that the growth of athletics had tended to improve the general tone of the college forms a most refreshing contrast to the illiberal attitude of the Overseers. They seem to think that the time given to athletics is so much taken from study, while, as a matter of fact, it is just that class which is naturally least inclined to study that enters most heartily into athletics. The "training" which these men have to keep is certainly beneficial, and often restrains the thoughtless from actions to which they would otherwise be inclined. The influence upon...
...been much improvement, and the general sentiment of college has become much manlier and more sensible. The growth of athletics has assisted considerably in producing this change for the better. There is no more conservative body than the undergraduates of a college. They are slaves to tradition, and think that because a thing has existed for some time it must always continue. Therefore all change is slow, but when a move is once made, the effects are very lasting, and this is as true of right influences as of wrong ones. Students are too apt to regard academic life...