Word: inferiority
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...communications deserve especial attention, as they throw some light on Harvard athletics. The first maintains that "we are not inferior to Yale in athletics," but that study receives more attention here than at our rival college, and that therefore "the real cause of our lack of superiority in athletics (not our inferiority) is the greater earnestness and higher kind of work done here." The second takes a different ground and attributes our ill success to our social system. It argues that the athletics of the freshman class have their interests turned aside by their election to a sophomore society, "which...
March 24-25: Lake Superior State, the defending national champion, skates into Bright for an NCAA quarterfinal series. After a pair of sub-par performances, Lake Inferior State limps out of Cambridge...
...fifth in the series of books edited by F. Y. Parker entitled "English" History by contemporary writers. The former volumes of this series have been exceptionably good, not only for general reading but for historical references. The book just issued proves to be in no wise inferior to the previous volumes. To mention the subject "The third Crusade of the Christians under Richard I of England" is enough at once to awaken an interest even in the casual reader, The doings of the doughty Richard Coeur de Lion, have always possessed that romantic air of mystery which surrounds the period...
...Howell; 2b, Cady; 3b, Wrenn; s. s., Thorndyke; l. f., Cummins; c. f., Rankin; r. f., Allen. Another game was played on Friday with the Cambrige High and Latin School nine, the score being 18 to 16, in favor of the Cambridge men. The freshmen played a much inferior game to that of the previous day, and the battery again was the weak point. The only changes in the nine were in the battery, Hollis catching in place of Child, and at short-stop, Spaulding taking Thorndyke's place. In both the games the nine was very weak...
...talents of gold were used in its construction. The technique of the statue is not clearly understood. The best representation which has come down to us is a statuette about a meter high, which was discovered in Athens near one of the gymnasia. It is the work of an inferior artist, however, and is only a fair production. It is executed in Pentelic marble, and, of course, many of the details of the great statue have been omitted. In a second statuette, discovered later, the reliefs on the shield of the great statue are reproduced after a fashion; the statuette...