Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...triumphs, and enable them to retain the reputation they won last year during the rest of their college course. Besides the first crew, eighty-seven has such a plethora of candidates that she is enabled to keep an entire second crew in training, in order to fill up any gap which may occur in the first crew. This second crew is slightly changeable in respect to the different positions of the men, as there is more or less changeing and shifting about going on among them, but we think; the following list will give the positions of the various...
...main question again whether Harvard was over hasty, we cannot well give an unqualified answer. Yes, if we take the present state of educational matters into consideration; no, if we look ahead to the great change which is to be effected. At present there is a great gap between school and university which the young man has to jump over as best he can. His academical training ceases long before it is nearly sufficient; he is left to make shift for himself in a sea of different studies, and there is no denying that the average man gets hopelessly lost...
Myers' retirement (if such is the case) will leave a huge gap in American athletics that will be a long time healing up, while such men as Baker and Goodwin are objects of pride and admiration to their countrymen, still the fact that they confine their powers almost entirely to college games and seldom enter open amateur competitions, detracts considerably from their importance as representatives of athletics in this country. * * * What a splendid list of high jumpers we have now. Page, little, wiry, cat-like Page, hit the record such a crack this year as to send...
...base-ball championship last year, it does not stand to reason that our hopes are forever blasted. On the contrary, we have every reason to be hopeful for success this year. We understand that '89 will furnish valuable material for the nine, which will help fill up the gap which the departure of '85 has made...
...team was crippled by the loss of Willard and Russell, both of whom were unable to play on account of sprains received in the game of Monday last. The vacant places back of the rush line were filled by Wiestling and Meeks, while Burgess was seen filling the gap in the rush line. The seniors took the upper end of the field, giving '87 the kick-off. From the moment the game began it was evident that both sides were playing for all they knew. Gradually the ball was worked down towards '86's goal, the '86 backs doing some...