Word: breakers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Several of the prose articles deserve more notice than it is possible to give them here. The "Paper" Sport is as good a "Harvard Type" as the Advocate has yet introduced; and the "Law Breaker," which follows, contains some uncommonly vivid word painting. Its author, Philip Richards, gives an excellent description of the novel feelings which the hero experiences on his first introduction to a gambling hell. In marked contrast are "Merely Players," and "Applied Science," the articles already indefinitely referred to as lacking in originality...
...considerable experience. It is difficult to compare the work of the halfbacks. Princeton has no one man who is as good as McClung; but on the other hand both her men are probably better than any man Yale has outside of him. Spicer is a good line breaker, and King runs much as Channing of last year's team did. Both elevens have several strong substitutes...
...that our nine will not suffer. The crew will have for one of its representatives, Mr. H. W. Keyes, who is at present acting as coach, and is looked to by the college to teach Harvard a winning stroke. Mr. W. H. Goodwin, Jr., is famous as a record-breaker in running, and a former supporter of the crimson at the Mott Haven games. He has kept up an active interest in athletics since his graduation, and can be depended upon to act for the greatest good of track and field athletics. Besides these graduates the committee will consist...