Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard was beaten 8 to 5 in a seven innings game by Williams at Williamstown Saturday afternoon. The day was stormy and made good playing out of the question, but the condition of the weather does not account for the utterly reckless manner and lack of determination shown by Harvard. The men that constitute the Harvard University nine ought to understand by this time that they are expected to make at least a fair showing. What the result of a Harvard-Princeton game will be, judging from Saturday's and other games played so far this season, is too ridiculous...
...forward game of them all. Her rushers will get through more quickly and sharply and will be down the field faster on a kick. She will take far greater chances than any of the rest, and while not playing much faster than Yale, will be more surprising because more reckless...
...industry, but the lasting good that accrues is hard to see. Is it just that the difficult and vexatious work necessary to prepare for an hour examination should be inflicted upon the great number of conscientious students, simply for the good of a few who are either lazy or reckless? It seems that nearly all the instructors are coming to this opinion. Such a system seems to accord ill with the liberal spirit that generally pervades Harvard's action. We believe in a simple warning and then an appeal to the midyear and final examinations to settle the question whether...
...have watched with some interest the actions of the freshmen nine since the game with Yale; we have noted with pleasure the increased eagerness and determination to win that has marked all their doings since their recent defeat. Yesterday morning a communication appeared in our columns which bewailed the reckless expenditures by the base-ball management of the funds subscribed by the freshman class for the support of its team. It seems rather small for any one to begrudge a suit, even though it does cost thirty-four dollars, to the nine, and its six substitutes, that have borne their...
...first decided to allow freshmen at Harvard to choose for themselves the manner of work which was required of them. The effect of that action has had time to develop, and what has been discovered? None of those evils which we were told were sure to follow the reckless piece of liberation which the faculty had displayed. Students have had the advantage of an extra year wherein they might learn how to work and how to systemize that. There are many men in college to-day who have their electives chosen for their whole college course, and when changes have...