Word: saking
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...shrink from the task because it requires a certain amount of time and trouble. If the rowing men in the classes are willing to undergo two months of monotonous gymnasium training, work on the river in all sorts of weather, and make other equally great sacrifices for the sake of their class and the prospects of the university crew, surely it is not asking too much of our base-ball players to expect them to be patriotic enough to give a few extra weeks of training in the spring, especially where they have a dry and comfortable place...
...portions of the college community. But, here, everything is so bound about by red tape, and all the minor workings of the governing board are so carefully concealed, that the students are apt to come to the conclusion that the faculty often do things merely for the sake of exercising their authority. Surely some means can be adopted to prevent the growth of such a feeling...
...Harvard team have done well; they have brought honor to their college and they deserve the high place which they hold in the contest for the championship. They tried no block game when they found themselves unable to cope successfully, if fairly, with our men; they played for the sake of the game, like well-trained athletes, and for all they were worth...
...practices as were then indulged in. It cannot be denied that the conduct of Yale's team is responsible for a feeling - and a very intense feeling - of hostility and indignation at Harvard against our sister college, which is perhaps represented by the communication which we publish. For the sake of college athletics, for the sake of inter-collegiate feeling, this trouble is greatly to be deplored. And yet we feel that Harvard, under the circumstances, cannot longer afford to suffer all and be silent, as she has too often done in the past. Unfortunately this is not the first...
...faculty will probably take no action in the matter of prohibiting games with professionals, and adds: "But whether they do or not, we hope that they have a higher appreciation of the true aims of college athletics than to imagine that any evil is to be tolerated, for the sake of affording any team better chances of winning trophies for the college. It certainly seems strange that any faculty should give the reason that was given at Yale for refusing to abolish professional games...