Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game-to be as careful and steady when the score is against us as when it is for us. Our games with Yale and Princeton can be won only by strong, uniform play. This has not been wanting in former years, and will probably not be wanting this year, even without professional practice. The nine deserves much credit for the splendid work it is doing, but at the same time it is certain that its play would be better if it had begun the season with half a dozen defeats from stronger teams...
...cent. liquor law went into effect in Cambridge on Monday. Adam's Welsh rarebits are now made with milk instead of beer, and even the innocent ginger ale is barred...
...possible for practice, if they wish to outdo Eighty-eight in the contest for the class championship. The freshmen especially are advised to work hard and faithfully, for they have to meet the Yale freshmen in a contest which is not mere play by any means. If they wish even to approach the record made by Eighty-nine two years ago, they will need to put forth the strongest efforts. They must remember that they are about to engage in a contest for the athletic honor of their university as well as that of their class. We trust that...
...There has been a great advance in mutual good feeling between 'town and gown' even within a score of years. A Cambridge policeman does not now represent 'all that is antagonistic to human interests,' even in the eyes of the freshest undergraduate. Harvard men and Cambridge society have very pleasant relations, and the annual graduation exercises of the city high school in Sanders theatre represent much more fairly the existing good feeling than does the petty criticism of Harvard as a foreign and non-taxpaying corporation...
...policy of the present board seems to be one of continual procrastination. There is plenty of time for the editors to get their manuscripts ready for the press, and they are not subject to the same petty inconveniences as those who take charge of the college bi-weeklies. Even a delay of a few days could be overlooked, but when it comes to dilly-dallying for weeks at a time the tardiness admits of no excuse. The last issue of the Monthly was very late in appearing and the April number should have been ready two weeks ago. When...