Word: behind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...athletics in which she claims that men in the college department alone are eligible, may aptly be compared to the position of a dwarf who considers that he is doing a favor to a giant by entering into a contest with him, with the big man's hands tied behind his back...
...CLARKE'S SPEECH.Clement George Clarke '95, the third speaker for Yale, was earnest and energetic. He was inclined, however, to go so hurriedly in his argument as to leave his audience behind. But when followed closely he was seen to have the matter well in hand. Mr. Clarke' showed that the delegation of power to the representatives of the national associations introduced a third party who could not freely understand either side of the dispute. These were the organizations to be ignored. The claim of the affirmative speakers that such organizations were necessary before there could be any arbitration...
...announced the following as the probable make-up of the team that will meet Harvard: Freeman, Orton, Silliman and Seymour. Of these the first two named are the best known. Freeman has beaten 51 seconds for the quarter and was fourth at the intercollegiates last year, coming out from behind the bunch and finishing very strong. Judging from his work last year he is as good as any man Harvard can put for ward 'at present. Orton, the famous distance runner, has hardly speed enough to entitle him to consideration as a first class man in a relay race...
Three weeks are left before the beginning of the mid-year examinations, and such men as have fallen at all behind in their courses will do well to start in today with a determination to get themselves into the best possible condition to stand their semi-annual ordeal. It may well be argued that the cramming system, with its short-sighted policy of making the examinations ends in themselves, is a thing to be frowned down. But so long as examinations are the only means of discovering how faithfully a student has performed the work assigned to him, just...
...being on the dead run. I made a diving tackle, jumping and tackling him about the knees. He fell on his side, falling towards Harvard's goal. It was a hard tackle, Wrightington striking the ground heavily. Before I made the tackle I heard Hinkey some distance behind me shouting to me to tackle Wrightington. Wrightington got up almost immediately, working his shoulder. I had heard the umpire's whistle for Harvard's off-side play and when I looked back I saw Hinkey for the first time during that play fully 10 yards back towards our own goal, running...