Word: credits
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...College, the members of the Shooting Club have quietly been practicing for today's shoot with Yale and Princeton. Their training can not have the same stimulus from outside that is given to football by the eager interest of the entire College in it. They deserve, therefore, more credit for what they do well. We heartily wish them success in their match today...
...involves distortion of facts to rate the best football player, or best oarsman, higher than the best scholar or debater. But the critic is not wholly right in this. There is a disposition in the college world to recognize in the highest degree anything which redounds to the credit of the college. Let a student write something which brings honor to his college, whether in science or literature, and there is no limit to the recognition he receives from his fellows. Let a football player strive to win glory for himself instead of for his college, and his fellows have...
...ground that the University is injured by these clubs. In the case of the Glee Club, strong testimony has been given by the Harvard men of the cities visited in past years, showing that the concerts and the general conduct of the students giving them, have reflected credit on the University. In two noted instances the Glee Club concerts have been the occasion of the founding of Harvard clubs and invariably they serve to strengthen the relation between the University and the graduates...
...varsity eleven deserves great credit for Saturday's victory over Cornell. The superior physical training which the Harvard players have undergone told against Cornell as it did against Brown; but in both games, after the first half had been closely contested, the men were quick to take advantage of their opponent's weakness and ran up the score with a vim that was gratifying to every Harvard man present...
...only fair and no very good records were made but several of the men showed promise of good development before the year is past. The races were all well contested, the two mile bicycle being especially interesting. In this race G. F. Baker, Jr., is deserving of much credit for the splendid way in which he set the pace throughout. He carried the rest of the men over the course in fine form and kept the race from degenerating into a slow loaf, as is usually the case with these races. He was only passed on the last...