Word: badness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...games of the College nine scheduled for the recess were cancelled on account of bad weather, and of the remaining games the team won but one, that with Boston University...
...Freshman crew have been in their shell only a short time and still display an extreme roughness and jerkiness in their movements and a bad clip at the beginning and the end of the stroke. The crew as a whle pull individually and fail to get together properly...
Yesterday was a bad day on the river as the tide was very low and a strong wind which interfered with the work of the crews was blowing. Both Mr. Lehmann and Mr. Willis followed the Junior and Freshman crews on the launch, and watched the '98 and 1900 crews set out from the float. The Freshman crew was first out, Mr. E. C. Storrow coaching. Their blade-work was poor, but their inboard work good, the slides being well controlled and all the men getting a sharp hard catch. Coming down river the Freshmen fell in with...
...will be free from the dangers of the old shut-in location. In the second place many more people can be comfortably seated and adequate standing room provided for the classes and graduates. Thirdly, while all the good points of the old exercises can be retained, substitutes for the bad can be provided which will add greatly to the impressiveness of the ceremony. To sum up, '98 by accepting the possibilities of a change can at least endeavor to make the most of an opportunity for satisfactory exercises...
...Freshmen played a plucky game throughout, exhibiting some fast fielding at critical stages. They went to pieces in the latter part of the game, however, and by bad throwing enabled the 'Varsity to get a lead which they were unable to make up. All of their hits were made off Ely, who was in the box for the first five innings. Hayes was substituted in the sixth and at once proved effective. Not only were no hits made off his delivery, but three men out of six who batted were retired on strikeouts. The best play of the afternoon...