Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...called "Harvard indifference," merely because we have two defeats behind us and a hard game ahead? Let us ignore technical perfection for a few days. No team ever won a real victory by that alone, and many "invincible" teams have learned that the right sort of a fight will disturb the most thoroughly perfected plans...
...Fraser-Campbell '11 and A. Sweetser '11 unnecessary. The second half of the match, which was played today, was close and fast. The two Burts took Walker and Whiting by surprise at the start, but in the last set the latter two steadied down and gave them a hard fight...
...bears the following inscription: "Theodore Parker, 1810-1860. Graduate of this school in 1836. Preacher, reformer, scholar; master of wide learning applied to human uses by frank and unsparing speech; fearless follower of Jesus, bearing witness to the truth; lover of righteousness, hater of iniquity; a hero in fight, a saint in prayer; he proclaimed as human invitations the perfection of God, the authority of conscience, the assurance of immortality. 'Sin to rebuke, to break the captive's chains; to call thy brethren forth from want...
Harvard, Yale and Princeton will be the three colleges to fight it out, for both team and individual championships. Since 1897, when the competition began, Harvard has won the team championship six times, and Yale five times; Yale has won the individual championship four times, Harvard four times, and Princeton three times...
...used his greater influence constantly in the interests of the poor, realizing that the segregation of the rich is one of the greatest evils of society. While he was at Oxford, where he left a record for clean Christian, living, he desired to be in the thick of the fight, and four years after graduation, in a district given over to crime and brutality, he had founded clubs that did away entirely with street ruffianism, his personality alone being sufficient to hold the younger men together