Word: worst
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...quite possible that such an arrangement would net a profit to the Gymnasium--at worst, the system would be self-supporting. However, whether profitable or not, the real convenience, which this plan would afford to those who use the Gymnasium seems enough to justify its adoption...
...only method by which hundreds of enthusiastic and care-free supporters of a college team can give vent to their enthusiasm and the spirit of loyalty, manliness, and sportsmanship that is overflowing in them. As such, organized cheering is a worthy and desirable institution, but it sinks into the worst kind of unsportmanship when used only to drown out the signals of the opposing quarterback, or to rattle the other team when it has the field. At recent intercollegiate contests this element has been brought forth most markedly, and it has been forgotten that the game should...
Where the worst is like the best...
...Point game the Yale team was composed of good material, but the team-play was decidedly crude. In the Princeton game, however, the work of the coaches was evident in an improved machine and a more highly polished team-play. Yale has been poor but has passed through the worst part of her season, and will be "coming" during the whole of the week, and it must be remembered that she has prestige and a remarkable faculty of improving up to the moment when she meets Harvard. One of Yale's new plays, however, which proved so effective against Princeton...
...Graduate Treasurer, Mr. Garcelon, grew better acquainted with existing conditions, the committee turned over to him more responsibility for details. Nevertheless, the committee held fourteen meetings in the academic year. The worst weakness of the committee as a working body lies in the difficulty of securing regular attendance from graduates who are not members of the Faculty. The graduate contingent of men who at College knew athletic sport from the inside, and who now can look at it through the perspective of middle life, is essential to a balanced organization; no one of these three gentlemen attends a single meeting...