Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...athletic season is over. The crew has come back from a victorious race against Yale; the University baseball and tennis teams have been humbled by the Elis, and thus the curtain falls on the first year of war-time sport. Looking back over the seasons, the University can hardly rejoice over its record. We have been unfortunate in every sport but rowing and we have plenty of cause for disappointment. But somehow the idea of sport solely for the sake of winning has disappeared; the mania for victory left us at the outbreak of the war...
...somewhat ashamed of the less cordial manner with which we have been wont to treat our visitors. Little courtesies help to establish a better relationship between colleges and other universities, including Harvard, would do well to follow in the Tigers tracks. With all its evils it has taken the war to teach what sport for sport's sake means...
...University succeeded in placing in only one event, Ames Stevens '19 taking fourth in the hammer throw with a distance of 124 feet 10 inches. Owing to war-time conditions and the University's policy of limited athletics, only four men entered in the intercollegiate contests this season...
These men had something more to say to the trade-unionists of Great Britain and France than that organized labor in the United States is pledged to the last man and the last dollar in support of the war. Their mission abroad comprehended also the assurance to working-men everywhere that there is no sympathy in this country with the extremists and visionaries, deriving their inspiration chiefly from German sources, who hope by an inconclusive peace to instigate a war of classes and repeat on a larger scale the follies which in Russia have protrated industry and for the time...
...meet is the first that the association has held since 1916, the war having interfered with its taking place last year...