Word: winning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...doubt that the men who resigned were completely innocent of any real professionalism in spirit, and only ignorance of a technicality led them to the disqualifying act. It is no exaggeration to say that all Harvard men feel the deepest regret at the incident. Whether the University teams win or lose, it is the desire of all sportsmen that they meet opponents who have not lost a part of their strength,--especially through such a stroke of chance as this...
...regatta in which the Freshman dormitory crews are to compete for the Slocum Trophy and individual medals will be held on Thursday and Friday of this week. By the same system of point scoring as was used last year, all crews will have the chance to help win the Trophy. The winning first dormitory crew will earn its dormitory 5 points; the winning second 4 points; and the winning third 3 points. In each event the crew coming in second will receive two points, and the crew placing third will get one point. Gore Hall won the regatta last year...
There is no doubt in anyone's mind that when the football team goes to Princeton it will put up a good game. It will fight hard. But its fight will be harder, its desire to win keener, if it has a crowd of supporters in the stands. Then victory will be sweeter, and defeat more bitter--consequently less likely...
...trite complaint that the undergraduate takes his extra curricular activities more seriously than his studies. But he does this because his homelly latent philosophy is essentially a sporting philosophy, the good old Anglo-Saxon conviction that life is essentially a game whose significance lies in terms of winning or losing. The passion of the American undergraduate for intercollegiate athletics is merely a symbol of a general interpretation for all the activities that come to his attention. If he is interested in politics, it is in election campaigns. In the contests of parties and personalities. His parades and cheering...
Rhode Island State golf team was the first opponent, and the University was not able to win from the experienced golfers, who took the game by a single point, 4 to 3. The University showed good from in this match for the opening of the season. The team played the University of Pennsylvania to a 3 to 3 tie, and won from Fall River 4 to 3 in the third game on the schedule...