Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organized scouting, do you realize what it is? As conditions now exist everything is entirely understood between colleges, everything is entirely above board. We send tickets for scouts to other colleges and they do the same to us. If this is stopped nothing will prevent graduates from sending back information informally, and where now it entails nothing but the best of feeling, there would be suspicion and misunderstandings which would not add to the best interests of the game...
...Needless to say, none of these measures will be of very great value if they are taken in the wrong spirit. If the spirit of the game were absolutely right now there would be no need for any change; if the disgrace of losing a game were understood to be no disgrace at all, much that is now wrong would automatically right itself. The thing of importance is to play the game for it sown sake; many game such as tennis are played very largely for the purpose of enjoyment. And just so far as any sportsman begins to feel...
Needless to say, none of these measures will be of very great value if they are taken in the wrong spirit. If the spirit of the game were absolutely right now there would be no need for any change; if the disgrace of losing a game were understood to be no disgrace at all, much that is now wrong would automatically right itself. The thing of importance is to play the game for its own sake; many games such as tennis are played very largely for the purpose of enjoyment. And just so far as any sportsman begins to feel...
...long as Freshmen classes show such regard for the mere unwritten customs of the college, we need not worry over the continuance of the old Harvard manners, or the growth of class interest as it is now understood...
...December, Mr. E. K. Hill, the Chairman, said: "It is probably a fact that more people have participated in football contests and certainly more spectators have witnessed these contests during the past season than ever before in a single season. In other words, the modern open game now generally understood and well developed has been subjected to another thorough test...