Word: good
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Ware '99 won the tennis championship of the State yesterday, on the courts of the Longwood Cricket Club, by defeating H. Ward 1900, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1. Neither player was in especially good form. Ward was particularly erratic. His back hand strokes were never sure and a fatal tendency of driving into the net lost him many points. Ware played fairly good tennis, but was inclined to play into his opponent's hands...
...that the baseball season here is approaching the climax of the Yale game, we should like to enquire with what aim the undergraduates have attended the contests of the past few weeks. If it has been merely to see two nines play ball, well and good, or rather well and bad, they might have satisfied their desire just as completely on the South End Grounds. If with any intention of rendering their team encouragement and support, their failure has been little less than ludicrous. A stranger in Cambridge attending one of the minor games, would have received the impression that...
...face of such critical indifference it is hard for men to play consistently good ball. Imagine yourself trying to do your best day after day, with no show of confidence from your friends on the side lines, Before long you would feel with a good many members of the Harvard nine, that you could play better ball away from home. We do not ask for a continuous howl from the bleachers, far from it. We should merely like to see the fellows shake off, at least while on Soldiers Field, the effects of the "Austere academic influence" we hear...
...said: The figure of speech is plain and pungent. Salt is savary, purifying, preservative. Christ was not paying compliments to his disciples. He was giving a clear and powerful call to duty. Were they to make their influence felt on earth for good? Men of privilege without power are waste material. Men of enlightenment without influence are the poorest kind of rubbish. Men of intellectual and moral and religious culture who are not active for good in society are not worth what it costs to produce and keep them. They were meant to be the salt of the earth...
...stand at Foster's is the best place in Cambridge to get a good lunch. All kinds of temperance drinks...