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...answering before going through the collegiate apprenticeship which most of us have served. But practice makes perfect, and the time may come when these same men will be able to enter a course at the mid-years, and, without purchasing a book, read the section by pure force of faultless sight translation and blindly audacious guessing, as was actually done in a classical course a few years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/3/1886 | See Source »

...ineffective, and ridicule oftener than approbation is manifested by the listeners. An assembly usually greatly prefers to hear a speaker who hesitates and stumbles in his remarks, provided they are extemporaneous, than one who fires off at short range a carefully prepared and committed speech, though it may be faultless in form and logical in argument...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/10/1885 | See Source »

...made some remarkably plucky and brilliant rushes. Crocker, Woodman, and Hallowell played well. For '87, Fletcher did the most effective work; his dodging and rushing were marvellous, and the rush line finely supported him. Willard's long kicks kept the ball from the '87 goal. Peabody played a faultless game, and Keyes, Faulkner and Fiske did good work in the rush line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '87-'88 Foot-Ball Game. | 11/17/1885 | See Source »

...features of the game were the almost faultless battery work of Nichols and Allen, the strong batting of Harvard, and Edgerly's long throw from centre field to the plate, cutting off Merrill, in the seventh inning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RECORD BROKEN. | 10/1/1885 | See Source »

...effectively cheered its nine at every available point; and, although some few manifested a disposition to cheer errors, they were promptly hissed by their classmates, who showed a gratifying disposition to treat our men fairly throughtout. The game from the outset was very onesided: the Yale men played a faultless fielding game, batted cleanly and hard, and were supported most effectively by their pitcher, but three hits being made off his delivery. Our men played a listless game from the first, making frequent errors, and failing utterly to fathom Heyworth's curves. After the game the excited Yale men marched...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE, '88, 14; HARVARD, '88, 4. | 5/25/1885 | See Source »

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