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...election of the 'varsity football captain will receive the approbation of all Harvard men, graduate and undergraduate, as the just reward of a player who has worked for the team with all his strength and will in the face of defeat after defeat. Such spirit enlists the admiration, support, and confidence of the University...
Football, besides forming sound bodies and better standards of morality, has another advantage of great account, and this is the spirit of enthusiasm which it stimulates. It teaches a man self reliance, and gives him courage to bear up under defeat, and to try anew with fresh vigor. The danger in playing football is certainly no greater than in many of the other good out-door sports such as polo, and no out-door game is worth a rap into which no accident or mishap could possibly find...
...morning, and, towards the end, in the evening also. It is easy to see that the actual time occupied is, therefore, far from excessive. But during the last fortnight before the great game the football man will become more or less wrapped up in his fancies of victory or defeat. Up to this time the player, in distinction from the captain, has had few worries. He has been coached, but has not been required to study out problems of attack and defense, tricks and strategies, plays for emergencies, and plans of operation. This has become the duty of the coaches...
...nine if a very large number of men try for positions; vigorous competition will improve the quality of each man's play and may develop some very strong material. Whatever happens, we must not give up the fight before it has fairly begun. There is nothing dishonorable in defeat after a hard struggle; there is something distinctly dishonorable and unmanly in loss of courage because of the possibility or even probability of defeat...
...other hand, there is everything to be said against seminars. It is perfectly evident that they tend to defeat the real purpose of the University, for they not only make it possible for men to stay here without working, but they even encourage a shameful neglect of duty which must bring discredit upon the University. The minute a man wilfully neglects his work he shows himself out of harmony with the institution and anything which encourages him in this neglect must be an evil. Moreover, the price charged for seminars is so high that, even were they a good thing...