Word: shame
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...debate among intelligent men will show nothing richer or fresher than this. Brothers Nichols of Harvard and Moffat of Princeton will hereafter kindly refrain from practising their deceptive arts upon the guileless batsmen. It is wrong to give them balls that they cannot knock into "kingdom come." It is shame to tease them by sending in curved spheres. In future, pitchers will deliver them straight at the bat so that nothing may baffle the aim of the batsman, who can thus convert his ash into a catapult, by whose means he may kill the pitcher, or anybody else...
...naturally inclines toward ruffianism. The fact of it is, there should be no necessity for rules against intentional unfairness and brutality in a game where the contestants are the representatives of America's three leading universities. When one stops to think of it, does it not seem a burning shame that fellows who come from the most refined class of people in the country must needs have rules, warnings, etc., before they can play a manly and honorable game ? But experience has shown the futility of relying on this spirit of manliness which is supposed to characterize the American youth...
...contracting their own views and deadening their own sensibilities' by a failure in the acquisition of the useless-while we apply this inconceivably irrational process to Greek and Latin, and to no other language ever taught under the sun-while we thus accumulate instruction without education, and feel no shame or compunction if at the end of many years we thrust our youth, in all their unwarned ignorance, through the open gate of life-while, I say, such a system as this continues and flourishes, which most practical men have long scorned with an immeasurable contempt...
...that rigid course of training which alone is calculated to develop the powers of the men to their full and legitimate extent. Our own opinion, justified by occasional remarks of some members of the team, is that several players are not doing their duty. It is a shame, but nevertheless a fact, that some men will work harder and train more faithfully before the team is chosen and when there is free competition, than after they have secured their places. They treat it as an individual matter, where only their own interests are at stake. So long as they...
...less experienced. Is it reasonable to assert that a man who has studied base-ball can give as valuable advice to young players as can a learned professor in college to classes in his particular department? We have good material at Harvard and it is simply a down-right shame that it cannot be worked to the best advantage. Other college faculties attempted to do away with professional coaches, but their willingness to admit their mistake led them to rescind these measures. The faculty of Harvard have always been inclined to consult the best interests of the students, so that...