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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...perfect, the best in everything, the superlative in all his work. But as he grows older and sees how hard it is to attain even mediocrity, his ideals usually fall. He drops from the superlative to the comparative. He is trying to do better. Later he is content if he obtains the positive, if he can do well, not better than anyone else. So it seems as if all through a man's life his ideals were falling lower and lower. Really he is coming nearer to the true way of looking at life as he grows older...
...less fault-finding and less criticism of the team, than has been heard here in the last two months. On all sides there is that quiet determination to win, which goes so far toward winning. And it is easily accounted for. To a remarkable degree the students have been content with the vaguest reports on the secret practice and have left its results to show themselves in victory over Yale. This unity is very gratifying and will not fail to have its effect. There is always one danger, however, in connection with such a feeling. An eleven, feeling itself backed...
Seats in the end sections for the Yale game are having a lively sale. Many people who had anticipated sitting in the side sections find they must content themselves with dollar seats...
...heedlessness, interferes with a just and fair settlement of class supremacy in football. If the spectators crowd upon the field they are sure, before the game is over, to spoil the play. At the class baseball games, where certainly the enthusiasm is just as great, classmen are generally content to stay outside the lines; the feeling should be the same during the football series. If arrangements have not already been made to keep the crowd back, the managers would do justice to the teams by appointing a number of men from each class to see that the field is kept...
...undergraduate rule made the college, not the university, the unit in athletics. It tended to break the bonds that existed between the different parts of the university; it ignored the fact of university development in this country, and expected that Pennsylvania and Princeton and Harvard universities would be content to be represented by Pennsylvania and Princeton and Harvard colleges. It was evident also that the undegraduate rule meant a curtailment of the possibilities of amateur sport, and that such curtailment was unnecessary. A bona fide student-one doing some real work with some definite degree as his object...