Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spirit in which the students attend. They seem too often to remember that they are present only because forced to be, and to forget the nature of the ceremonies in which they take part. Their behavior consequently loses its proper devotional character, and the entire service shows a harmful want of sincerity and earnestness. The students who gather each morning in Appleton Chapel, on the contrary, are there for a purpose of their own and not from any disagreeable necessity. They come because they wish to take part in the service, and accordingly do take part so earnestly that...
...have seen games at Springfield and have made it my business to inquire about rough play. The very men who are most impressed by these evil manifestations are those who know most about it and want to keep athletics on a high plane...
...believe in athletics and I believe in football. We don't want to abolish football - at least not till we beat Yale...
...want to say right here that I decline to subscribe to the doctrine of the sacredness of the human arm or leg. What matters a few broken bones to the glories of football as an intercollegiate sport? It is all nonsense to say that football is a game that benefits only a few. Look at the youngsters on every vacant lot in Washington during the fall season playing at football! Does anybody suppose that there would be these activities if it were not for the great heroes on the big teams whom these boys read about and look...
...casting any imputations on the members of the polo team in question, nor do we think that they have ever formally set themselves up as a Harvard team; they adopted the name, "University Polo team," as a member of the team wrote to the CRIMSON last Tuesday, "for want of a better...