Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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FACULTY OPINION.Members of the Faculty naturally felt hesitancy in commenting upon their action. Dean Briggs thought it best not to give any account of the way the vote was passed, but the impression received from other sources was that the vote, as passed, was not the result of prolonged deliberation, although the subject of placing restrictions on intercollegiate football had received considerable attention. One member of the Faculty said that he thought that the consideration which most affected the action was that the principal games had become such large and unwieldy affairs and attracted so many persons...
...football experts are like the primitive races of man. You recollect how Sir Henry Maine says that all early codes were marked by an inflexible rigidity, because their rules were thought to have come down from Heaven itself. To most football players the suggestion of a radical change in the game seems about as impious as to ask a Priest of Menu to say his prayers without washing his feet...
...desire to win and in the fierce excitement of a game, there is often tolerated a great deal that is indirect violation of the spirit of gentlemanly sport. When the whole attention is directed to the end the means which attain it are often by that very fact thought justified. This should not be so. The true sportsmanlike spirit, so often referred to yet so often forgotten, should be present at all times and under all circumstances, unflinchingly condemning the slightest deviation from gentlemanly play. Where rules must always fail, the cultivation of this spirit will raise football...
Harvard Union.Some time ago the Harvard Union received a challenge from the Wendell Phillips Club to a joint debate, but it was then thought best to postpone it until the debate with Yale had taken place. Now that the Yale debate is over arrangements are being made by the executive committees of the two debating clubs for a joint contest. It will be held Friday, March...
...result of the Conference was a general prayer last Whitsunday of all the churches in England for unity of thought and action among all denominations. It originated from an accidental conversation between the Archbishop of Canterbury and the speaker...