Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...With the record of victories in the past six years thus even, Harvard must take a fresh start next spring. Most of her team will return, and the excellent work of the men this year promises well for the year to come. If the future captain is as thoroughly equal to his position as captain Bingham has been, and receives the same support, the college need not fear for the result...
...annual spring concert of the various musical clubs this evening will be well worth hearing. Of late years all the clubs have set a very high standard for amateurs, and there is every reason to believe that the present performance will be the equal of those that have preceded it. Few interests of the undergraduates are better worth keeping up than the musical, and there is no surer way of encouraging them than by some show of appreciation of the work the clubs have done. The concerts in Sanders Theatre are the only occasions on which all the clubs appear...
...tragedy and comedy. There is in England a picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds of Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy. One day Garrick was asked which he considered the most difficult. "Oh, sir," replied the actor, "whether I am well or ill, in high spirits or low, I am always equal to tragedy, but comedy is a serious business." He meant that comedy requires an amount of earnestness and depth that is not usually given to it. An actor, while thoroughly appreciating it must always take a joke seriously, otherwise the humor is lost. Dogberry, for example, when he hears that...
...Yale catcher played good baseball, but neither Gunther nor Peck was equal to Ames in the pitcher's box. Colgate's work at first base was the best baseball of the afternoon. The rest of the infield was only fairly good for a class team. The outfield was particularly wretched. Several muffs of long flies will help to account for Harvard's rather long list of runs...
...with little team play, showing the urgent need of systematic coaching. The feature of the game was the batting of Lockman for Cambridge. Hayes played shortstop and Haskell second. Holt pitched. The only place not definitely settled seems to be first base, for which Walker and Hall are about equal...