Word: ways
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...practice, Captain Burr and Coach Haughton are giving the first possible instance of the initiative needed for the coming season. They have secured the services of several efficient graduate coaches, and intend to accomplish something more than mere drilling in fundamentals. We cannot help but admire the business-like way in which the season has been inaugurated, and we feel that this preliminary industry augurs well for the success of the team next fall...
...this capacity of regulator of athletic sports. He has since become one of the most interested and valuable members, and to feel that pressure of other work was to such a degree in effect as to render him unable longer to serve the University in this way is to be doubly regretted. We feel certain that in expressing sincere gratitude for the time and care spent by Dean Sabine while a member of the Committee we shall be voicing the sentiments of the entire University...
...both athletes will study, or both will not do any work. If one has to give up his athletics while the other keeps on exercising, the result would be that he who had no incentive to keep off probation would be the one to neglect study. Hence, the best way to keep men off probation is to allow them to participate in some form of athletics; and if one is allowed...
...Frothingham spoke largely on political principles, outlining what the people really expect of a man in political life. The only thing that induced him to enter politics, he remarked, was that the machine said he could not win; in the same way many apparently one-sided issues, when left to the people, are decided in a wholly unexpected manner. Sincere and helpful criticism of men and institutions with which the young politician comes in contact, an inflexible maintenance of his word, come what may, and an attitude towards the people while not too cordial and familiar, yet open-minded...
...absurd as it is typical. If that small, quaint, and old-fashioned distinction of issue between victory and defeat be not forgotten, if it bear any weight with those men in whom the injudicious restraint of athletics now lies, or if they are affected in any way by the existence of conditions which breed all over the country a broadcast belittlement of the University, why in the name of conscience and common sense don't they either abolish absolutely or let alone...