Word: turning
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...fewer outside games and more intra-college competition. Mr. Derby's scheme would leave the Yale game or some important contest, which would still mean with our "American temperament" considerable specialization and exclusion of other interests, and the undesirable newspaper and arena notoriety of players, but it might turn some of the side-liners into players and possibly into University material. If undergraduates and graduates are not yet ready to withdraw from outside competition in a perfectly frank and manly way, as we withdrew from competition with Pennsylvania, and yet believe in more general participation in sport, why not adopt...
...fair that the sport should be considered partly theirs as well as the players, and their wishes taken into account. They wish to have a winning team, and are helping to effect this. However, they would do well to consider what is best for the teams which they help turn out, and I think that they should consider thoroughly the points brought out in the communication printed in the CRIMSON of November...
...impossible to estimate the exact influence which John Harvard exerted upon this University. In the early days of any institution a small thing may turn the scales toward success or failure. Let it suffice that John Harvard's gifts to this University were important enough to entitle him, in the opinion of his contemporaries, to give his name to the institution of which we are all proud to form a part. With general support the demonstration this evening will show how we value the timely aid which our virtual founder gave to the struggling College...
Cornell has won the championship for the last five years, and is expected to do so again this year. The University team finished fifth last year, but although the present team is fairly strong, it has been beaten by Yale, which in turn lost to Princeton, so that its chances seem rather doubtful. However, the team has been improving steadily, and should do better than last year...
...bleachers blue turn pale with fright...