Word: winning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will play Exeter on the 'Varsity field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Exeter has an unusually strong team this year and the Freshmen will have to work hard to win. Exeter defeated the M. I. T. team a week ago by the score of 12 to 6, and put up a plucky game against Bowdoin on Wednesday...
Harvard debaters, therefore, have upon their shoulders no light responsibility. The University looks to them to reassert its superiority and to show once for all that the two defeats sustained were exceptions. All eyes will be upon these men, and if they win, as they ought, they may be sure of the gratitude and appreciation of those whom they will represent. The first thing to do is to secure a keen competition for the honor of a place on the team. May the best men get it, and then make the most of their opportunity...
...kind, looking to future, rather than immediate results, that most can be done to raise the plane of Harvard athletics. The resources of the University are large; much larger, in fact, than those of most of its rivals. There is no lack of muscle and brains with which to win. The trouble is that they are not made use of; that particular branches of activity are left to those who happen to be engaged in them at the moment. In short, there is not enough care taken to use all possible material, and when there is no material to manufacture...
...body available for the uses of life. This is not indispensable but it is a good sound sign of a promising career. The power of strenuous application, of assiduous mental labor, I count the next in importance. The man who is fresh while others are tired, is sure to win an advantage in the competition of the world. Another mental trait which University life ought always to develop is independent thinking. Let a man think about the thoughts of wiser men but let him think for himself. Such a man will be self-regulating-quiet but strong-minded...
...mutual obligation for two hundred and sixty years. You bring with you youth and vigor. On her part, this commonwealth, with Bunker Hill, Lexington Common and Plymouth Rock, speaks to your hearts and the hearts of all Americans as do few of her sister states. Whatever success you win must in part look back to Cambridge and to the commonwealth...