Word: fights
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...absurd then to imagine that the result can be foretold, and it is worse than absurd to encourage any general expectation that Harvard will have the game in her hands. Whoever wins that game must fight it out to the bitter end, and any feeling of security is ill founded. Too much confidence tends too spoil the team. It also tends to produce a violent reaction against the method of coaching in case of defeat. Finally it gives outsiders and graduates an exaggerated idea of the team's ability, which calls down upon them perhaps unjust criticism if they...
...which has been delayed. The playing yesterday was fairly good, although there were no very close matches. By far the most interesting sets were between McConnell 1L, and H. Ward 1900, who won the spring tournament. The first two sets were only decided after the hardest kind of a fight, in which McConnell proved himself a cool, accurate player. The deciding set, however, went, 6-0 to Ward, who played fast tennis...
...second crews, will be picked from the class crews, the selection being based largely on the showing made in the class races. These two crews will row together every day for the rest of the training season and, as Captain Goodrich expressed it, there will be a long fight among these sixteen men to make the eight coveted places in the 'Varsity boat on the day of the race. Only those men who row in the race will receive an "H" this year...
Meanwhile '98 had steered a course nearer to the Cambridge side, but they continued to draw ahead of '97, and at the bridge were about two lengths ahead of '97 and 1900, and two and one-half lengths behind '99, who were rowing strongly. Ninety-eight made a game fight of it after passing the bridge and gained a length, but in the last quarter '99 put on steam, leading at the finish by a length and a half of clear water...
...every number; it reads along smoothly enough and does not mean anything in particular. G. H. Scull contributes a rather vivid sketch of life on the Banks suggested perhaps by Kipling's serial. The "Point of View" is a fairly interesting rather too cleverly written monologue about the prize fight. These, with two poeme and a sketch, complete the number...