Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ability, and willingness to learn that he may yet prove to be a good man for the place. He is erratic and weak in tackling, and consequently will need much coaching. Marshall, quarter-back, seems to lack the ability to drive his team at top speed. His passing is fair, and he has an advantage in that he can drop kick with some certainty. Robinson, quarter-back, is fast on his feet, and leads his team pretty well; but he seems to be very weak in handling punts. His judgment in the choice of plays is about...
...were not consecutive and, without gaining that is steady, no team can win except on flukes or on its opponents' mistakes. Pennsylvania, therefore, was unable to pull out a victory by its own peculiar style of play, while Harvard, knowing the rudiments of the game thoroughly and having a fair amount of team play in all styles of offense, had little difficulty in scoring on Pennsylvania's untrained defense...
...committee to be the judge of the eligibility of its own men under rules which are substantially the same at both universities. If Pennsylvania does not agree with us we must accept the decision in good faith and go into the game with our old determination to win by fair, generous means. The business of those who sit in the bleachers will be to give a good play their support, even though each side may cherish the warmest feelings for those who have been their comrades...
...Yale Dramatic Association will present sometime in March in Hyperion Theatre, New Haven, an old English play by Hayward, "A Fair Maid of the West...
...votes for a platform, and that the great mass of Americans vote for parties. He then goes on to insist that, contrary to de Tocqueville and Mr. Bryce, actual parties with definite underlying principles do exist. His opinion is contained in the following extract: "Further, I maintain that a fair-minded examination of the present aspect of our two great parties leads to the conclusion that they still represent with reasonable consistency, the two great sets of interests, and the two great types of character, which in modern self-governing communities have usually lain at the basis of party system...