Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...wholesome sport in which men are interested and which can call out the best players in the University to represent it, should be kept and encouraged, that Harvard may send out men better equipped for life in every way. Applause and enthusiasm are always good things, but what we want are men who have the strength, spirit and energy to win without them. We do not want to praise the losers, they have our sympathy. Victory is the only thing that deserves praise, and Harvard needs victories...
However well suited to the needs of the University, this is not what the Harvard undergraduates want. College life means more to them than the book learning that they get; athletics, social pursuits and friendships all go to make up what is known as a college education. Harvard College wants to be more than an integral part of a great university; it wants to be treated as a unit, to be dealt with from a different point of view, to have its own rights and privileges, apart from the other Harvard schools, of which we are all proud, but which...
...complaints about empty class-rooms on the days of big games, and there must be no more cause for the well-founded objections to "vacations of recuperation." The maintenance of athletics is, we trust, by the wording of the petition, about to pass into the students' hands. If they want their games, they must stick to their promise and prove...
...poles stand the Faculty and undergraduates. When they chance to compare views in person, as at the CRIMSON dinner, both sides are convinced of the possibility of a satisfactory solution. Why, them, cannot a solution be reached? We are more than ready to do our share; we want only to be met halfway, and in the same friendly spirit that is now characteristic of at least the undergraduates' side of the argument...
...them are essentially winter sports and do not exist at other seasons of the year. Imagine attempting to play basketball in the spring or autumn in a hot gymnasium. Hockey can only exist at the present time when there is ice, and even with a rink, nobody would want to play it in warm weather. These different forms of athletics are to be given up entirely (for to my mind that would be the result of an abolition of intercollegiate athletics) merely because they happen to be sports fitted for indoor work. Yet, the three major sports would...