Word: ills
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...little pleasure that we notice the excellent results which the change made in the manner of coaching the freshman football candidates is working. In former years it has been usual to see two elevens made up of men vainly trying to understand what has too often been the ill-judged coaching of some undergraduate, while a few substitutes wandered aimlessly along the side-lines. This year four elevens are working daily. Three competent graduate coaches are fast bringing them into such shape that the first eleven promises to make a lively fight for the class championship. If this system...
...they may be made immediate use of. Books of all kinds are wanted but at present there is more need for the text books used in courses in college. If enough of these are obtained it will be possible to run all the courses without asking those who can ill afford it to buy any text books...
...passes without some player being injured. Yesterday Hallowell sprung a cartilage over his ribs in a scrimmage, and had to leave the game. While the accident is not a serious one, it will lay Hallowell off for a week, and the eleven in its present state can ill afford to lose his services...
With all the ill luck that has attended the football eleven it must be hard for Harvard men to keep from losing heart a bit. At the beginning of the season the material for the eleven seemed somewhat less promising than usual and it is no exaggeration to say that since then on almost every second day some valuable man has been injured. Such a succession of misfortunes is enough to try sorely the most hopeful...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, M. D., LL.D., Litt. D., D. C. L., Professor of Anatomy Emeritus, died yesterday at his home, 296 Beacon street, Boston. About ten days ago he came to the city in poor health, and last Friday he was taken seriously ill. He was suffering from asthma, but the physician in attendance left him yesterday morning, thinking he was in no danger. His death, hastened by heart failure, occurred suddenly at about noon...