Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...crews. I refer to the statement that "the fact that the 1905 class crews has been beaten in a brush over the regular course by the Newell 1905 crews shows that the men left over from the first choice who went to fill the club boats are not greatly inferior to the first crews...
...multiply on the part of those best fitted to improve the stock; that is, those who have shown their talents by their achievements. Obviously, no race can maintain its quality if it practices those methods which stock breeders would adopt if they aimed at the production of an inferior stock, that is, by breeding principally from inferior or mediocre individuals. From this standpoint, President Eliot's observations concerning the size of the families of Harvard graduates are especially significant...
...Pomfret in a very rough game by the score of 4 to 0. As in previous games the lack of team-work was chiefly responsible for the defeat, but the passing was also very poor and the men slow on their skates. The work as a whole was distinctly inferior to that in the practice game against the University team on Tuesday...
Clothier, pitted against an end of national reputation, showed himself not inferior to Shevlin, and played a game more sportsmanlike than that of his opponent. Captain Marshall at quarterback, played a remarkable game, handling punts reliably, running back the ball spiritedly and carrying the ball for long gains around end. If it had not been for poor judgment, in attempting a drop kick with the ball on Yale's 8-yard line and but two yards to go for first down, and again in calling on LeMoyne to punt from within the 15-yard line after he had clearly been...
...Harvard eleven, both as a team and as individuals, cannot be given too much praise for their aggressive and powerful work in the face of the supposedly far superior team of Yale. Harvard's team proved that from being inferior, it was in many ways superior to Yale, and the failure on the part of the coaches to recognize early in the season the capabilities of the team contributed largely to the defeat. It seemed that the team work of the eleven during the game arose from the exigencies of the situation and the determined spirit of the individual players...