Word: hards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that, unreliable season and at a time of the year when athletic diversions are at a discount in the University. In the face of this disadvantage, the newly formed Harvard team has gone to work with good spirit and though beaten in the first contest with Brown, has kept hard at work and now hopes to be able to make a better if not a victorious showing against its more experienced and better organized rival. The game yesterday was certainly encouraging. The team deserves credit for its good work and success in the game of Thursday...
...thirty men in training. Of these, thirty-seven were on the team last year and took part in either the Harvard-Yale games or the Mott Haven games in New York. More than half the remainder tried for the team last year and thus have had experience which hard training may develop into good material...
...members of last year's team are still in college and many good candidates have added their names to the list. Thirteen candidates have presented themselves for the position of pitcher, among them Altman, Easton and Wilson. The most uncertain position is behind the bat, where it will be hard to replace Trenchard and Williams. Kelly is the most promising man for first base and Captain Bradley will play second. Gunster and Ward will probaply play third base and shortstop, The management will adopt the plan followed last year of playing Altman, Easton and Wilson in the outfield when they...
...afford a cover for corruption of the worst sort. The experience of sportsmen the world over is that the only safe rule is that which precludes the possibility of a man's engaging in athletics for pecuniary profit and still retaining his amateur standing, even though it may work hard in some cases against men who are undoubtedly sportsmen and gentlemen...
...regards relief from privation. Some take the view that in the social struggle the very people who ought to, perish; that both private and public charities are an injury and that men have no right to take the hard earned money of some and give it to the less fortunate. Others, who go to the other extreme, desire that there should be an equitable distribution of goods. But this is pure idealism and we all know that human nature makes this idea impossible. Between these two courses the state must steer an intermediate course. The large sums expended annually...