Word: kind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...turned out, about eight or ten men of the thirty or more who went down did what was expected of them in the games, while the rest, to say the least, fell below expectations. Now, without trying to apologize for the poor showing or make excuses of any kind, it behooves those who are interested in Harvard's athletic welfare to look into the causes of this poor showing...
...will be remembered that owing to the faculty restriction '98 did not play the Yale freshmen at baseball in their freshman year, while they met them at football and rowing, winning one and losing the other, both after the closest kind of a contest. Therefore a ball game with Yale '98 will be of special interest...
...crowd of men there ready and anxious to cheer, but with no one to lead. The first Brown game last year was a good example of this; although the game was unusually close and exciting, there was, until the last inning or two, no demonstration or cheering of any kind, except a little that was spontaneous; finally a graduate volunteered to lead the men and although it proved to be too late to pull out the game, the enthusiasm certainly did brace the team up wonderfully. Later in the season the way in which the nine was backed...
...that the Ninety-eight Freshman teams of Harvard and Yale met in football and rowing, but that on account of faculty restrictions the Freshman baseball games had to be given up. As Harvard Ninety-eight took the football game and Yale Ninety-eight the boatrace, each after the closest kind of a contest, the proposition to settle the undecided supremacy in baseball is an excellent one, and there is no apparent reason why it should not be carried...
...sympathy with the Duke of Burgundy. Though the apprentice himself remains throughout a somewhat colorless onlooker, he manages to give us a striking account of a fifteenth-century siege, with its excitement and its horrors. In this story, too, there is sensation, but it is not of a morbid kind...