Word: though
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...CRIMSON is inclined to agree with the Ledger's view, which takes into account the curious psychology that puts the strong arm in a higher place than the well developed brain. Under precent though not necessarily normal conditions, the Phi Beta Kapa trophy may serve as an incentive to increased effort in the field of studies, but it is not apt to reduce materially the importance many sub-Freshmen attach to athletic ability and achievements. The idea of such a trophy, is, nevertheless, a good one, and the competition for it and its final award will be watched with interest...
...afford to talk of participation in such a title when any bright autumn, after the various registrations are computed, it is liable to find itself a dozen numbers, more or less, further down the list than it supposed it was. It seems but half a dozen years ago, though it is really more, since one thought of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, possibly including Columbia, Cornell, or Pennsylvania, as the "big" universities of the country, meaning in numbers. Now we may perceive that in the reckoning by numbers alone Harvard is sixth down the list, Yale is seventeenth, and Princeton twenty...
...Moreover, this fact necessarily makes for a different mental attitude on the part of the undergraduates. Their competition is far less strenuous. I do not mean that the play is less vigorous. But it tends to make the mere winning or losing of less relative importance. It is as though your best friend beats you in a game; you simply try to beat him the next time you play. But with us, if your greatest rival upsets your whole campaign, which has included a number of contests with other rivals in which considerable prestige is lost by defeat, the only...
...Moreover, this fact necessarily makes for a different mental attitude on the part of the undergraduates. Their competition is far less strenuous. I do not mean that the play is less vigorous. But it tends to make the mere winning or losing of less relative importance. It is as though your best friend beats you in a game; you simply try to beat him the next time you play. But with us, if your greatest rival upsets your whole campaign, which has included a number of contests with other rivals in which considerable prestige is lost by defeat, the only...
...lack of leadership, the students have not come forth with substantial proof of support. It is devoutly to be wished that tonight, when two teams meet very evenly matched, this defective backing may not be in evidence. If the contest is to be won, it looks as though victory were partly up to the University, and not alone to the team...