Word: highly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Cutting was not especially steady, but made some fine returns. His lobs were generally ineffective as Pearson returned well. Cutting excelled on backhand strokes, while Pearson was far steadier on his forehand. Both men played in streaks, and both used a high bouncing serve, which Cutting received in the back of the court, while Pearson preferred to play up and take the ball on the top of the bound. Pearson won his games by driving the ball low at the net to Cutting's feet, making it almost impossible for the latter to return...
...danger of defeat. Henshaw was distinctly off his game and served a number of double faults although he made several brilliant back-hand plays. Both Pearson and Dana were good on fore-hand shots but poor on their back-hand. Niles won all his serves and showed a high standard of game throughout. Most of the play, however, was directed at Dana...
...second, took the lead at the start. At the beginning, Dabney was a trifle unsteady and lost his first serve, but soon steadied down and played his low balls well while Gardner ably cared for all overhead shots. Smith was not up to his usual form in high play but performed well at the net. Colwell played in the back of the court most of the time and put up a good all-round game. His lobbing was especially brilliant...
...piece. His personal kindnesses have been innumerable and untraceable, and his following can probably be paralleled only by one other teacher of our time. The subject which he taught for many years was elected by everybody almost as a matter of course; and all regarded it, high students or low, as one of the signal events of the college years. Like Geology 4, Fine Arts 3 was a "soft course." Would there were more such! Under Professor Shaler the student gained a kindling vision of pretty much all of the natural world; under Professor Norton, of the human. In these...
...Graduates' Magazine published a number of letters from men of prominence, written to commemorate his birthday. The CRIMSON has taken the liberty of re-publishing these letters, with one or two others in the hope that a larger group of people might have a true appreciation of the high regard in which he was held by his associates...