Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Cash on hand...
WHAT has been said of our athletic interests in general, applies most immediately to our foot-ball team. We unfortunately had an instance last year of a case where, with plenty of very good material on hand, no proportionately good result was obtained. We also learned that the success of eleven or fifteen men depends upon their unanimity in playing, and this, in turn, depends on the constant practice of all the members of the team. To have four or five good individual players who belong to other departments of the University, and who cannot do the same amount...
...himself prepared for college, and retained through life the scholarly tastes which would have promised success in a literary career. For the last quarter of a century or more he has filled the office of Secretary, and without assistance till his work outgrew the possible capacity of a single hand or brain. It is difficult to estimate the amount and diversity of the demands upon him in conducting confidential correspondence, in the minute and delicate calculations connected with the rank-list, in constructing tables of college-statistics, in superintending arrangements for examinations, and in so ordering the details...
...fact is," continued my chum, "that Browser is a terrible liar. I did n't believe that she flirted at all, and told her so, and then I took her hand, and then...
...crew in some respects than that of last year. The men are heavier, taller, and row in better form; but they are all new men except three, - a fact greatly in our favor, and one that superficial writers in making their estimate too often overlook. Harvard, on the other hand, has but one new man (that is a man who has never rowed in University boat), and the crew, with the exception of Captain Trimble and Mr. Pea-body, is the same as that of last year. Besides, ex-Captain Bancroft has been stroke for three years, and was never...