Word: win
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Along with Mr. Bingham's policy of "athletics for all" has gone an attempt to increase the emphasis on having the men play for the inherent pleasure in playing a game well and make the desire to win not a paramount consideration in Harvard athletics. This idea has been applied especially in choosing coaches, notably in lacrosse and soccer, where young graduates have supplanted middle aged experts. Surely this policy could be furthered considerably in football "giving the game back to the players" as it often has been expressed...
...undergraduates and graduates in general with an unwarranted and foolish optimism in regard to the approaching grid campaign. In fact he included in his indictment all football fans "within 50 miles of the sacred cod atop the state house." He says, "It begins to look as if Harvard might win all of its games by undergraduate and general fan edict before a single game is played. It is a hysteria of optimism which is not at all uncommon in college football circles. We can recall oh-so-great Yale and surely unbeatable Dartmouth teams of early October, that were gallant...
...refused to endorse his candidacy last week. On the other hand, although he claims he is not a member of the Laborite Opposition, the Labor Party announced last week that they would run no candidate in North Sidney, his constituency, evidently intend to help him out covertly, hoping to win him into their camp once more-for until he formed the Nationalists fighting Billy Hughes was a Laborite...
Worried by such Heimwehr-Schutzbund snarls, members of Chancellor Streeruwitz's cabinet finally announced that they would soon submit to Parliament proposals to change the Austrian Constitution in a way which might placate the reactionary Heimwehr yet be mild enough to win the grudging approval of the Socialist Schutzbund. Nettled by such temporizing, Heimwehr authorities in Vienna issued a sensational "Last Warning to Politicians"-a flat ultimatum to the Government of Chancellor Streeruwitz that a revolution will be staged within a fortnight unless he consents to the Heimwehr scheme of jamming through their Constitutional amendment...
...Little was on the Harvard Track Team in 1908, 1909, and 1910, where his work with the shot helped the University to win in 1910 over Yale. Cornell, Pennsylvania, and Dartmouth. He was also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa...