Word: beating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...soon be learned by the rest of the team and consequently no good will come of the practice. I once heard an old ball player say "take an ordinary fielding nine, but all sure and hard hitters, add the finest pitcher and catcher in the league and it would beat almost any nine set before it. While this statement may be slightly exaggerated it has "much of method" in it for the strength of a team lies in its "battery" and its ability to hit good pitching. This ability can never be learned from an amateur no matter how faithfully...
...culture of this country, but how much longer will she remain so if she throws aside the study of the language and customs of the people who were "the great exponents of humanity's bent for sweetness and light, of its perception that the truth of things must beat the same time beauty." To quote a little more from Mr. Arnold: "Sweetness and light evidently have to do with the bent or side in humanity which we call Hellenic. Greek intelligence has obviously for its essence the instinct for what Plato calls the true, firm, intelligible, law of things...
...University of Pennsylvania is of the opinion that it has an eitht-oared crew which can beat the crews of Yale and Harvard. Having expressed that opinion in 1882 and again in 1883 by challenging each of these universities, and neither of them accepting the challenge, it now challenges any college crew and announces that, if its challenge is not accepted, it will claim the championship of American college rowing, and call upon public opinion to sustain its claim. While it is about it, it might make its challenge a little broader so as to take in Oxford and Cambridge...
College cheers are very indicative of the distinctive types of character which each college produces. The esprit du corps of any college is easily measured by its cheer. The simple form and the full, uniform beat of the Harvard rah is significant of the dignity, unity and self-restraint of college life at the first American university. There is no custom handed down from the past that we can better afford to guard with jealous care than the Harvard cheer. The Williams cheer is, we admit, unfortunate and far from edifying. That of Dartmouth is decidedly ludicrous...
...just as impossible for the average man to excel in athletics without instruction, as it would be for him to excel in his studies without instruction; and that it is just as absurd to expect an uncoached crew, nine, foot-ball, lacrosse or cricket team from Harvard to beat a well coached team of another college, as it would be to expect a set of Harvard men who had received no instruction whatever in Greek prose or Calculus to surpass in an examination in these studies a set of carefully taught men from some other college, Our victories in rowing...