Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...miserable undergraduate support in track and baseball, the unenthusiastic rooter is optimistic about the autumn. "Football is more fun to watch, and there is more time to go to the games then"-- But the eleven may have a disappointing early season, and if the College shows no better spirit under trying conditions in the fall than it has recently, the eleven will be stranded...
With a large part of the undergraduate body away from Cambridge, there is little chance to retrieve the faults of this spring now, but the backers of the Crimson can still show that the old athletic spirit has not died completely, but is only hibernating, by "coming back" with new life next fall...
...going to take a lot more spirit than was shown last fall, and a decided brace from the limp attitude of this spring, to out-fight the men who "are ready to go through hell-fire and brimstone for Yale...
...selection of Edward Wachter as coach in charge of University basketball for the coming season, the athletic committee is most fortunate. Mr. Wachter is an expert admirably fitted to inject life and spirit into the indoor sport as it has been revived at Harvard. With the restoration after a long lapse of years of basketball to the position of a recognized minor sport at the University, and with the active interest aroused in the game by the newly inaugurated Freshman physical training system, the appointment of a proper coach was all-important. Mr. Wachter, with twenty-two years of experience...
...invariably been controlled by men who viewed the entire matter from the college standpoint and who did not appreciate fully the needs and difficulties of the average high school. In appointing Mr. Pennypacker to take charge of its recruiting, the Harvard authorities have met this contention in a conciliatory spirit...