Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...final round of the University tennis tournament was won yesterday afternoon by W. S. Warland '03 who defeated W. P. Blagden '04 in a hard five set match, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2, 5-7, 6-3. The challenge match for the University championship will be played tomorrow afternoon at 2.30 o'clock between Warland and G. A. Lyon, Jr., 2L., the present champion...
...finals between Warland and Blagden were exceedingly hard fought throughout, both men playing swift, brilliant games. Although Blagden often won on his swift service and hard drives from the back court, Warland was generally steadier and superior at the net. After the first set, in which both players were somewhat erratic. Blagden settled down and easily won the second, 6-2. Warland then quickly took the third set at 6-2. In the fourth set, which was by far the hardest, the playing was excellent on both sides, but Blagden by forcing the game with the score 3-1 against...
...first game of their season the Freshman eleven defeated Groton on Saturday by a score of 18 to 5. The team played hard and swiftly from the start, sending Hodges over the line for a touchdown after four minutes of play. Nesmith and Nichols, playing the two halves, rushed hard and kept their feet well; the latter scored two touchdowns in the second half. After two futile attempts, Waterbury kicked a goal from the field for Groton in the first half...
...University of Maine on Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon by a score of 22 to 0. The game, or at least the first half of it, was a struggle in which a light team of slight experience, through mere pluck and determination, made a much heavier team fight extraordinarily hard for the ground it gained. During the fifteen minutes of the first half, the Harvard eleven was rarely able to gain its distance in less than three downs, several times lost the ball, and was frequently forced to punt. Had not fresh players been used in the Harvard line...
President Eliot was the first speaker. He said in part: It is very hard for the new student to decide upon his course of life amid the many diverse influences of the inexhaustible Harvard environment Here he finds every possible opinion on every possible subject vigorously represented. He finds a powerful individualistic tendency, but he finds also the social tendency. He has the responsibility of developing his own character, and he has also social duties to his class and literary interests of the College. He sees some men in College who try to be popular and influential, some who lead...