Word: facings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...need not discuss his virtues. No one who ever saw him could fail to see in his kindly face and cordial manner and in the fairness and justice of all his dealings with men, the strength and warmth, the purity and sincerity of the highest type of manhood. By this death the students lose a kind friend and helper; the University, a devoted servant; the city, a faithful citizen; the world, a true man; and to all these the loss is irreparable...
...that the eleven has once more been defeated, Harvard men must resolutely face the future and ask themselves what can be done. It will do no good to misrepresent facts to ourselves; the eleven was fairly outplayed. It is true that Yale had unquestionable luck in regard to the wind, and it is further true that Harvard had mishaps which seriously affected her chances. How the game would have resulted if these particulars had been different, is a matter of idle speculation; we must recognize the fact that, as matters actually were, Yale won a clean victory...
...natural thing. It is a confidence that is not over confidence, and which does wonders in winning a game. It is not to Yale's credit that she has this feeling, nor to Harvard's discredit that she has it not. The feelings with which the two elevens face each other are the logical results of the situation and could not possibly be otherwise...
Captain Cook has not been well for a few days past, and in his absence Dickinson, Paine and Whittemore have alternated in coaching the candidates. Most of the time is devoted to batting, and the men are given a chance every day to face hired pitchers. Captain Cook is making it a special point to teach co-operation of batsman and base-runner...
...rough brick with trimmings of Ohio lime-stone, and the architecture is practically of the colonial order, much like Hollis and Stoughton. There will be four entrances, two on the Oxford street side and two on the Jarvis field side, so that the building will eventually face on the quadrangle when the field is built upon...