Word: cleaner
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...baseball players of today a more finished article than the famous old star players of yesterday? Anson, Ferguson, Stovey, Rowe, White, Brouthers, Thompson, and Sunday were once the idols of the fans, yet the player on the big teams of today can show even cleaner fielding averages. Why? you ask. Just compare the 1908 scores with those of even ten years ago. Games are won on closer margins, fewer hits and less errors. Better fielding tells the story...
...required to make them strong, well-nourished men. It seems to me indisputably true that the more we look on our training tables as such an institution, and the less we consider them a series of free meals of unnecessary delicacies, served to a few athletic idols, the purer, cleaner and better will be our athletics...
...predominate too complacently, shows that the Lampoon believes only in victory. The chief illustration, "Football under the New Rules," also will hold the attention. Here, however, the cartoonist seems to have forgotten his mission; carried away by his humor he derides the very rules that assure Harvard cleaner sport and a game. Of the many smaller drawings undoubtedly the best is that signed M. O. in monogram...
...ample, but the only way to overcome temptations is to meet them face to face. Our opponents say that the tendency is too strong to play to win at all costs. Take for example the recent contest between Princeton and Yale. Both teams were anxious to win, but a cleaner contest has never been played on a college football field. Having met and refuted all the arguments of our opponents, I wish to restate the three main contentions of the negative. Football creates a clean and wholesome spirit around which the student body can rally. In the second place...
Instead of trying to invent something to replace the Statue exercises, why not let them go without a substitute? The time thus freed will be much more pleasantly spent in the Yard, and at the various Spreads, and everyone will be cleaner, and cooler, and less weary. SENIOR...