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...Captain and elsewhere. If present reports develop into facts it would be well for our university and college authorities to take some radical stand against the innovation. It is not clear what they could do to protect their young men from the pernicious influences; but as least they could wipe out a feeding ground for the professional sport by abolishing the game altogether...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: N. Y. CRITIC CONDEMNS PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL | 1/25/1917 | See Source »

...being defeated when you have done your best-but the knowledge that had it not been for a few "slackers" the showing of the track team this season might have been much different, is a disgrace, and one that every member of the University should make an effort to wipe out next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TRACK OUTLOOK. | 6/12/1916 | See Source »

...which the CRIMSON has received in regard to the summer camps are a criterion, the subject is vitally interesting to students. Debating is now a purely College activity and is rising in favor. Finally, the team needs financial and especially moral support (by actual presence) if it is to wipe out the defeat received at New Haven last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ARMAMENT SYMPOSIUM. | 3/25/1915 | See Source »

...many believe that the Mexican question can be satisfactorily settled on any idealistic basis, without the use of force? The number may be large, but the ranks would be noticeably depleted if it was common knowledge that the united Mexican people if invaded could easily wipe out all of the regular army we could send there, and ask, for more. There are about 185,000 men under arms there now, and while our troops are much better, the difference in quality would not make our maximum of 35,000 anywhere near their equal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Favor of Militarism. | 3/16/1915 | See Source »

Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye"; and, except advertisements and new subjects for Advocate Prize Essays, it serves up nothing without an infusion of football--as if it would restore temperance by surfeiting, like a Keeley cure. It might well spare us "Statistics of Harvard Players." When a man plays football through one Freshman season and three Varsity seasons, we read his condensed biography seven times in the CRIMSON and become so accustomed to it that we do not need it in the Advocate. If the Advocate's example is followed by the Monthly, the Illustrated Magazine, the Lampoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ADVOCATE REVIEWED | 11/21/1912 | See Source »

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