Word: decent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...convinced Yale and Harvard have been doing for many years-persuaded them to come back and play. If it had not been for the smaller colleges-who have no business in the league at all, as the scores this year show.- Ames would have been disqualified, and with a decent amount of daily practice instead of the forty minutes of this autumn we should have beaten Princeton and the Thanksgiving day game would have been ours. We can beat them next year, and then talk about a dual league...
...another in the intercollegiate league when they read such lies in the columns of the daily press. On the occasion mentioned above, there was absolutely no hissing whatever on the part of the Harvard men; and, in fact, the conduct of the spectators on both sides was perfectly decent and gentlemanly throughout the game. It seems to be a rule among press reporters, whenever they can make out a story which will injure college men, that it is their duty to do so, and they follow the paths of their so-called duty with a ghoulish glee that is positively...
...doubtless capable of giving necessary orders. The rest of the men must learn to control their tongues. Their office, except when coaching, is to play ball, not to talk. In the next place, there must be an improvement in the batting. The nine cannot hope to make a decent showing against Yale if man after man strikes out. In the third place, the men must use some judgment in running bases. Every game the Freshmen have played has been characterized by the senseless carelessness of their base-running. Recklessness in running bases may look pretty, but it rarely wins games...
Harvard modestly makes no claim to beating Yale and Princeton. Her only ambition is to keep the scores within a decent limit.- Phila. Press...
...they devoted their entire time to literary work. At pres serving the university. It is to their credit that they make this sacrifice, but it is anything but creditable for the Harvard alumni to allow year after year to go by without making an effort to pay them decent salaries...