Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...impossible to give any criticism of Wrightington's work because he has played so little this year. The playing he has done this year is far inferior to his work of last year...
...plan, considers that the games might be developed side by side at an advantage, besides giving a much larger number of men a chance to take part in the sports. That Harvard will play Princeton in football is welcome news to all. Each university has considered the other its inferior for some years, and a game cannot be otherwise than a close struggle. As the meeting will take place on College grounds all taint of the too great publicity of university sports will be removed and the position of the game naturally strengthened...
...outset, that the musical ability of the club, which varies necessarily from year to year, must enter largely into consideration when the programme of songs for each season is made out. A good club can undertake to learn some songs which would be out of the question with an inferior one; and "classics," if well rendered and varied with music of a lighter kind will never fail of appreciation from Harvard audience...
...impossible almost to judge of the playing of the Harvard men against a team so much inferior, but it was easy to see that the men did not exert themselves to the utmost. Holt did not do his best, in fact he has not played up to his limit lately. He is very much inclined to shirk...
...costuming and staging was very good but the dialogue was inferior. The songs and the musical selections and the mechanical features, however, combined to make the performance fairly acceptable, while the clever work of several members of the cast, notably Frank Butterworth, the football player, and H. R. Bond, Jr., won repeated encores. The latter caught the audience in a clever song, in which he accounted for Yale's victories in athletics and defeats in debate in a line which ran, "We are men of deeds, not words...