Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...with no little pleasure that we notice the excellent results which the change made in the manner of coaching the freshman football candidates is working. In former years it has been usual to see two elevens made up of men vainly trying to understand what has too often been the ill-judged coaching of some undergraduate, while a few substitutes wandered aimlessly along the side-lines. This year four elevens are working daily. Three competent graduate coaches are fast bringing them into such shape that the first eleven promises to make a lively fight for the class championship. If this...
...three touchdowns during the twenty minutes the game lasted. The playing was very uncertain. At times the 'varsity would gain fifteen or twenty yards by a compact interference, and again their backs would be downed with loss. This was due to the fact that each player does not yet understand his part in the work of blocking off. This fault can be done away with only by practice...
...next week to promote the religious interests of the University is opportunely called. A clear statement of the organization and function of the different societies, if given under such circumstances, will add to their repute, dignity and influence. For this purpose alone, the meeting would be justified. Yet we understand that this is but a secondary object, and that the primary object is to point out the need of philanthropic enterprise on the part of the students, and to show the present possibility of effectual work of that kind. Both the need and the fitness of Harvard students in part...
...order to give a proper amount of coaching to some of the more prominent men a reduction in the numbers of the candidates for the nine has been found expedient. Captain Whittemore desires that such of the men as have not been retained understand that they are not debarred from trying again in the spring...
...Nature is not thrown together hap-hazard. The greatest scientists have agreed that there is some purpose underneath all the world. So we all are working in God's great purpose and are called by Him. And more than that, we are "called to be saints." By sainthood we understand nothing weak or effeminate, but rather an ideal manhood. In saintliness there is much room for variety, but in all ages, under all circumstances, it must include a receptive and reverent frame of mind, a spirit of self-sacrifice, and a desire to fulfil the great purpose...