Word: bits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...spite of the defeat we can not account the Harvard team in any respect a failure. No team that plays always with every bit of its strength and to the best of its knowledge can be called a failure whether it wins or loses. We are proud of the Harvard team for the victories that it won during the season, and of its hard struggle in a losing game...
...line very hard, and kept his feet well. His onside kicking was very good, all of the kicks being placed accurately. In the line the men failed to make holes for the backs, Williams stopping a number of line plays without gain. The whole line was a bit slow and no one followed the ball. The ends had the same difficulty, though their tackling was hard. Houston and L. D. Smith were fairly reliable on onside kicks...
...their business to such a degree that they were able to offer Hans Wagner a fabulous sum to play for them. Although he refused, being unwilling to associate with such an unscrupulous body, these wielders of the shears and paste-pot will undoubtedly pull of some equally delicate bit of delicious humor to maintain their dubious reputation. It is rumored that F. Beets Boodle, notorious in sporting circles, and a former Philadelphia star, will attempt to fill the gap between second and third base, while the unearned increment will be devoted to pumping the water out of the new cyclone...
...very well--"Why not trot the poor old scholar out?" There was a certain sign of patronage for the scholar on the part of the man of the world, in which the poet joined. I should have been glad if the dignity of scholarship had been a bit more emphasized...
...heavier journalistic ordnance than the daily musketry of the CRIMSON? I must look, it is clear, at the Advocate not as a semi-monthly spokesman of College views, but as a carrier of light waves--of verse, stories, and the occasional essay. If the old Advocate was a bit ponderous, the new Advocate--is it my years?--seems to me not quite heavy enough. But when I come to examine the component parts of this issue, there are really no serious faults to find--no faults, I am sure, of which the editors themselves are not perfectly well aware...