Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...found necessary to make an inquiry into the schedule of the baseball games, and the standing committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports was appointed in that year. In 1883 it became apparent to the committee that football, as then played in the intercollegiate games, had become brutal and dangerous; but what was much more serious, it involved a danger to the manly spirit and to the disposition to fair play on the part of the contestants. Changes were made in the rules and a conference with other colleges was summoned by Harvard to consider the intercollegiate question. Nothing came...
...University Religious Meeting last night on the theme of "Courage." He spoke in part as follows: Only the man who sees life sanely and sees it whole possesses true courage. It is a necessary quality in the development of every race. In its primitive form courage is only brutal, but it is this brute force and brute courage from which higher and more refined virtues spring. Brute courage reaches a certain point where it does not satisfy; it must be allied to faith. There are several checks upon the development of true courage in this country today...