Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...backs have, however, improved somewhat this week under the coaching of G. S. Curtis '92 and J. L. Knox '98 and when they get running well together are apt to hit the line with some force. As the team has played no hard games it is impossible to tell how effective their interference will prove against such a strong line as that of the Junior eleven...
Perhaps there is no reproach which has been more constantly cast in the teeth of Harvard men than that of favoritism in the selection of athletic teams. Newspapers are eager for sensation, unsuccessful candidates are apt to blame anything but themselves; and people seem somehow to forget that a coach's or a captain's reputation depends on his using the best men available...
...Ninety-seven has in many ways been a really exceptional class. It is what might, in a way, be called a well-balanced class, since it has not only had its full share of athletes on the different teams and crews, but, at a time when athletics are apt to receive more attention than they deserve, it has had an unusually large number of men connected with the other important interests of undergraduate life. In addition it has, since its Freshman year, shown a spirit of class loyalty and unity which has surpassed that of most of its predecessors...
...crews, rowing on an average seventeen miles a day. They have been coached by Mr. Goodenough and Casey of the Riverside Boat Club. They row a stroke somewhat shorter than that which the other crews use, and the recover is very much faster. The crew as a whole is apt to hurry and fails to use the leg drive soon enough. The watermanship is very good and has improved much of late. This crew is the heaviest of the four and the men are unusually strong...
...Goodrich, "the Crew;" N. W. Cabot, "the Football Team;" F. Dobyns, "Debating;" C. E. Morgan 3d, "the Press;" and R. P. Utter, the Poem. G. Newell, ex-secretary of the class, who left at the beginning of the year, was present and spoke, and G. H. Scull read an apt toast to the class, in verse...