Word: drags
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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With the coming of the more important baseball games next week, the old question of organized cheering will have to be settled again. Every spring we see the spontaneous applause of the earlier part of the season change into concerted cheering under the direction of numerous cheer-leaders, who drag the last breaths from the supporters of the team in a frenzied endeavor to help bring about a victory. However righteous we may pretend to be it cannot be denied that this cheering is calculated to unnerve the opposing nine as much as it is to support the university team...
...entering an exacting competition have found it extremely difficult to keep up their other College duties and it has in some cases served more or less to isolate men in the first few months of their College career--a condition to be avoided if possible. It is unfortunate to drag a man down in his work the first half-year and handicap him with the task of working his way into favor again. The Freshman entering a competition only a fortnight after arriving in Cambridge is at a complete loss for a week or two, and after that he finds...
...stupid errors on the bases. While there were several clever plays pulled off in the field, notably Harvard's three double plays, each of which spoiled good chances for runs, it was uninteresting baseball for the most part, and the slow playing of the visitors made the game drag unnecessarily...
...action progressed more smoothly and every character was brought out with increased brilliancy, showing greater confidence and understanding of the parts. The audience was more appreciative last night, many points being taken which before passed unnoticed. There are still a few small places where the action is inclined to drag, and it has been decided to eliminate them in the performances to follow. The theatre was over-crowded before the performance began and some were unable to gain entrance after the play started...
...Graduates' night performance last evening went off well, despite many of the drawbacks often attendant on a first performance. The play is full of funny situations, but in many places last night the action was allowed to drag; a fault which was enhanced by the fact that two or three of characters did not know their lines...