Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...practice throwing in Lincoln Rink. In comparing the respective merits of the Yale freshman candidates and Harvard candidates, one cannot help but be impressed with the weakness of our men. From present developments the freshmen here are decidedly inferior to the men at New Haven, and only by the hardest kind of work and systematic training can Harvard hope to wipe out the remembrance of the fiasco of last year's freshman team...
Harding, quarter-back, is one of the hardest workers on the team. His passing has been poor, but he is improving of late in that respect. One of the few on the team who tackle...
Princeton, as will be remembered by those who witnessed the game last year, had a very strong team, and it was only by the hardest work that our team prevented it from carrying away the championship. This year the contest will be even more doubtful, both because Princeton, our most formidable opponent, will retain most of her old team, and because we have lost several of our best players. Of last year's team there still remain, Davidson, '88; Fowle, '88; Blake, '88; Griffing, '89; Harding, '89, and Morton...
...have got to work very hard this year for the championship. Nothing but the hardest kind of work will win it for us. We hear that both Princeton and Harvard have exceptionally strong teams in practice, but we don't mean to let them get away with us if we can help it. There will be no holding or slugging allowed in the game this year, so our men will be specially trained against these defects. According to the new rules we will have two referees, one to watch the ball, and the other to watch the men. Of last...
...making men more careful and deliberate in the choice of their courses. This force is brought to bear most cogently on the man who is taking what is known as a "general course" in college; for his range of studies is usually the widest and his choice therefore the hardest. The specialist, on the other hand, gets all the benefit out of the expansion of his department without the attendant difficulty in coming to a final choice...