Word: violent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...absurd to encourage any general expectation that Harvard will have the game in her hands. Whoever wins that game must fight it out to the bitter end, and any feeling of security is ill founded. Too much confidence tends too spoil the team. It also tends to produce a violent reaction against the method of coaching in case of defeat. Finally it gives outsiders and graduates an exaggerated idea of the team's ability, which calls down upon them perhaps unjust criticism if they are defeated by a team which is comparatively underrated...
...theory of an evolutionary method of some sort in this universe has taken fast hold upon thinking men. Especially is this the case as to the life of man as man upon our planet. While a quiet evolution is easily seen in laws and political institutions, a more violent process is no less evident. So far the progress of man has been, far more than we could have wished, by catastrophies...
...objections to the scrimmage itself have little weight. The flowers, particularly the class figures, should perhaps be so lowered that the struggle need not be so violent and that "concerted action" might not be necessary. But that the scrimmage is brutal, that football clothes should not be worn, and so practically that the old scrimmage should develop into a formal presentation to each Senior of a boutenniere, is absurd. A man may take part in the scrimmage without losing dignity or without being brutal or ungentlemanly...
...well as the student body working for the interests of Harvard on its athletic side, encouraging the crews and teams and sharing in the enthusiasm which so obviously helps them to win, it seems that there is need of an organization of the enthusiasm itself which shall prevent all violent and dangerous demonstration. By having an inspiriting mass meeting occasionally, by having some well-led cheering and marching on the evening after a victory, doing away with any prolonged noise and rioting and especially with the use of firearms, this object would be accomplished. Further, it seems that no harm...
...worthy scholars who craved for higher knowledge. The Sophists were characterized by their opponent, Plato, as the mere reflection of public opinion. Protagoras taught that whatever a man's opinion teaches him is true to that man. The lecturer closed by showing how utterly absurd are the violent charges of immorality attached to this system of belief...