Word: good
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rather too early to tell much as to the battery candidates. Of the comparatively new pitchers, Stearns '99 is doing very well; he is left handed, with good speed and fair curves. Paine '97, last year's pitcher, is first rate as usual, but he does not pitch his straight balls high enough to be effective...
...Luquer '99, A. B. Lapsly '99, and W. A. Talcott 1L. Clapp has a weak wrist and is listless; Palfrey is quick but has little form; Green shows his lack of experience; Luquer is slow; Lapsly is painstaking but not quick on the parry; Talcott slashes a good deal. If interest is kept up and the men continue to work a good team ought to be turned out in spite of the general lack of experience. It is hoped that the college tournament which will probably come off in a couple of weeks will develop outside material...
...trial debate of the Harvard Forum to choose its representatives for the Columbia Union and Prospect Union debates, was held last evening in Harvard 1. Twenty men in all spoke. The standard of speaking was very good indeed for a club debate...
...been a year when more than two or three Harvard men have been even worthy of consideration in these events. The chief reason for this poor showing is to be found in the small number of men who have come out. Many men who are physically fitted to do good work in the weights begin training with the squad and, merely because they do not make rapid progress at first, soon drop out and leave the team to make its usual poor showing in the hammer and shot...
...obviously for the good of debating in the University to arouse the greatest possible interest among the first and second year students; for this will do much toward raising the standard of future intercollegiate speakers. In the apparent absence of other plans, therefore, we propose a debate between representatives of the Sophomore and Freshman classes. If this plan were tried and found successful it might well be made a yearly event. If, however, it should not offer the advantages embodied in the former intercollegiate debates or help in any way to take the place of those debates, it need...