Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...addition to this the following letter was received by Captain Ames last spring from Mr. Stickney, who played on the Harvard Eleven this fall. We understand that the Yale Management was similarly approached by this player...
...without principles of honesty. This year three overcoats with money and valuables have been lost, and numerous towels have mysteriously disappeared. The gymnasium authorities are unable to prevent this while men leave their property scattered around so carelessly as at present. The men using the lockers must understand that they do so at their own risk and so must be cautions about leaving their valuables in them. As for the line of hooks in the main halls and bath rooms, which are generally filled with overcoats and hats, it seems that more efficient watch might be kept by the authorities...
...Harvard if Yale does not favor a dual league? Will she not be entirely cut off from football contest?" The questions are pertinent ones, since it is altogether likely that is just the attitude Yale will take. They imply, however, a mis-conception of Harvard's attitude. If we understand the case aright, Harvard is today more nearly in a position favorable to her own interests than she has been at any time during the last few years. Heretofore scarcely a football season has passed without some disagreeable controversy. The climax came this year. If we may trust our past...
Lessing's life had neither the romance of Schiller's, nor the charm of Goethe's. It was one long struggle against poverty, in an age when people had not come to understand that literature was a profession worthy of the highest type of man. Manliness and a love of truth without regard to established authority were the salient points in Lessing's character. He was primarily a critic, but he supplemented his precepts by example, and accomplished as much by his character as by his intellect...
...thoroughly free expression of opinion on any phase of the athletic question. In this way, and in this way only, can we prepare for the developments of the coming season. Harvard has already fixed a policy on herself which it will be for her best interests to understand in its every phase if she would not compromise herself in future action...