Word: hards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...result of last night's debate must be a disappointment to the University. The speakers had worked hard and all had hoped that the defeat of last year was to give way this year to victories over both Princeton and Yale. But this hope must now be deferred for another year...
...work of the baseball candidates since they began practice in the open air has been very satisfactory, and as the men are more evenly matched this year than is usual, it will be a difficult matter to pick a final team. The men are all working hard and have been successful in defeating the team of ineligibles and Uhlriche's professional team which played them on Tuesday afternoon. As a consequence of the even playing of the candidates the games between the 'varsity and the reserves are hard fought and are almost as useful in training the men as regular...
Since the arrival of Mr. Lehmann the crew has been working very hard, rowing fast stretches every afternoon, though they have not as yet gone over a mile and a half when they were rowing their hardest. Yesterday afternoon they rowed a five minute stretch, but did not stay out quite as long as usual owing to the fact that today they will go over a four mile course on time...
...work of the Harvard speakers in the coming Harvard-Yale debate, which takes place Friday evening in Sanders Theatre, has been progressing favorably. The men have been working earnestly for the past month or more. The usual routine of hard reading and practice debates, together with conference with Calendar, Mixter, Virtue and Myers of the Graduate School has been gone through with, and the work at present is merely the elaboration of speeches, and exercise in general rebuttal...
...away with altogether. They are of undoubted value in giving practice to men who have not spoken in university debates and there is all the more incentive to the speakers to do their best if it is known beforehand that a decision is to be given. Moreover, it is hard to see how they can do any harm, provided they are held in club rooms strictly between club members and without all unnecessary publicity. Otherwise, as has been said, no decisions must be made or else the debates must be given up entirely...