Word: brutely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...excited utterances on football of which the the Nation has delivered itself of late, there has been a wilful disregard of facts, an unwillingness to admit anything good of the opposite side, that entirely shuts it out from any claim upon intelligent attention. Such phrases as "brute instincts which they have been sedulously cultivating," "animal gratifications," and the like, indicate an attitude of mind the opposite of candid or dignified. It may be that we are taking the Nation too seriously, and that the expressions we quote are acknowledged hyperpolae, assumed for rhetorical effect. Admitting that, we cannot see that...
...annual report, is the utterance of a man who refuses to surrender either his reason or his responsibility to a popular and passing craze. Out of the mouths of the apologists for the game, he condemns it. They would restrain on the day of the great match the brute instincts which they have been sedulously cultivating through three months of training by "employing more men to watch the players," so as to prevent foul and vicious playing. What sane man can dispute President Eliot's conclusion that "a game which needs to be so watched is not fit for genuine...
...going to confess that we are unable to take advantage of its strong, healthy points, and simply say it is too rough a game for boys to play? * * * Let us rather make a point of seeing that they learn to play fairly; that they learn to govern their brute instincts, that only those who are able to do this are permitted to indulge in rough play...
...find where it comes from and how to meet it? It is natural that there should remain in us some of the qualities of that from which we evolved and since we believe man to be of animal origin we must have in us some of the brute qualities. After the animal stage came the the lone discipline of the savage, leaving the relics of the savage in us But no matter what origin we give for our temptations, our construction is always this the animal, the savage and then the man. This analysis may make it clearer what...
Then again it would probably stimulate kicking, and especially long passes toward the ends as well as end running. The wedge play is not all brute force. The large college teams showed them as models of skill and clever head work. The wedge should stay in football, but a provision of some kind should insure a necessity of other play during a contest. It ought to be a possible play, but not all the play, and legislation which will induce the captain for the interest of his team to use other plays as well, is the legislation that will...