Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...afternoon. The University's defense proved inadequate during the first half and Columbia kept the ball in their territory almost constantly. In the second half the University team strengthened and play centered around the enemy's goal. The final punch was lacking however, the tries at goal all going wild...
There is little, if any, of the college rowdyism, or "rah rah" spirit at Harvard. And for the majority an intercollegiate football game means something more than an opportunity to give vent to "canned enthusiasm" by wild cheers and drunkenness. It is a clean contest, well and fairly fought, an exhibition of skill, grit, loyalty and team-work, that leaves the spectator with an increased desire to attain those qualities for himself...
...Cornell Sun, in its post-victoriam number, reprints under the heading "True Cornell Spirit" a paragraph from the New York Tribune commending the manner in which the Cornell supporters received the news of their victory. "In place of the wild dash to the gridiron and the rollicking snake dance, the Cornell men stood in their places and sang their college hymn. Then they hurried across the field, and, grouping before the Harvard section, cheered for Harvard." While of course Cornell's display of the victor's courtesy was in order and is appreciated, the fallacy in the Tribune's remark...
...wild dash for the gridiron and the rollicking snake dance" are spoken of as if such exuberance were obviously unsportsmanlike, as if there were something mean in thus "rubbing it in." On the contrary, it is a legitimate effervescence of the joy of victory. The defeated not only expect it, but they feel disappointed if the subtle compliment be omitted. "Is the query. Doubtless more than one Harvard undergraduate,-- and at least one,--was obliged to apologise to his companion last Saturday when the expected serpentine failed to materialize...
Dinner Committee.--Alfred Wild Gardner, of New York, N. Y. (chairman), Worthington Davis, of New York, N. Y., John Merryman Franklin, of New York, N. Y., John Lester Hubbard, of Providence, R. I., Thomas Turlay Mackie, of New York, N. Y., Nils Victor Nelson, of Winthrop, Arthur Wallace Pope, Jr., of Boston, Robert Johnston Hare Powel, Jr., Ardsley-on-Hudson, N. Y., Horace Alonzo Quimby, 2d, of Springfield, Charles Parker Reynolds, of Milton, William Farr Robinson, of Philadelphia, Pa., Walter Heber Wheeler, Jr., of Yonkers...