Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale class races have been postponed twice on account of bad water...
...would not be a bad idea for the Canoe Club to hold "smokers" during the winter, similar to those of the Bicycle Club. Canoeists are proverbially fond of meeting and "yarning" about their exploits...
...over the audience when they realized that defeat stared us in the face can, therefore, be readily imagined. The game was called at 3.25 with Harvard at the West End of the field, a strong wind in their favor. The Pennsylvania quarter-back at the kick off made a bad pass and our rushers got down quickly and Gilman securing the ball rushed it close down to Pennsylvania's goal line. It was passed back to Kimball who made a kick for goal which was blown by the wind to the left outside of the posts. Soon after the ball...
...suggestion a correspondent makes that the "Harvard Brass Band" and the drum corps turn out with the student delegation which is to attend the Independent rally in Boston, is not a bad proposition. Other considerations aside, the practice to be obtained would more than repay the trouble, while the accompanying fun would serve further to tip the scale in favor of this scheme. If the drum corps is not the proficient enough to turn out en masse, a picked corm might be chosen from among those whose former experience with the sticks enables them to serve without further practice...
...eleven and poor tackling by the Freshmen enabled the University team to score several touch-downs. However, the play of '88 was good at times, that of Osgood, Woodman and Holden being the best. The chief trouble with the Freshmen was their inability to tackle readily and bad fumbling of the ball by the backs. They blocked fairly well got down after it in good shape, but failed to close in quickly enough on the man of the opposite side who caught or picked up the ball. Sufficient it is to say that '88 has good material, which ought...